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> single-payer system Why could I not buy my own insurance? Or why can't I self-insure? If I want to pay for the best, I ought to be able to buy it (again, i
by mises 7y ago
> single-payer system
Why could I not buy my own insurance? Or why can't I self-insure? If I want to pay for the best, I ought to be able to buy it (again, if I will pay).
There's a difference between actual single-payer (in which there is a single entity which pays, the government) and a government health-care plan. For which are you advocating?
- mAEStro-paNDa 7y ago>For which are you advocating? A single-payer system, as I said. >Why could I not buy my own insurance? Or why can't I self-insure? These are leading questions. There exists healthcare systems that are a hybrid of single-payer/private insurance.
- mises 7y agoThese are not leading questions. "Single payer" definitionally means there is a single entity which pays, meaning no insurance or private pay. You're using it like it means a government plan; it doesn't. The reason I'm asking is because some politicians are crazy enough to want to prohibit any thing but a government plan, and I don't know where you fall.
- mAEStro-paNDa 7y agoThey are leading questions. You're assumptions about single-payer, based on what you think "some politicians" said, are baked into your questions. Again, there exists hybrid systems. Take a look at Spain or Australia. Canada almost exclusively works off it's public system, yet private insurance still has a minor role. Maybe I'm "crazy enough" to think that there should be zero profit-motive in health insurance, but even I can confidently say that a public policy scenario wherein all but a government plan is prohibited just isn't realistic, nor does it reflect what many other western countries have done for 30+ years.