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Currently that money is flowing from the pockets of everyone into the pockets of investors, legislators and workers tied to the healthcare industry. What is the
by riazrizvi 7y ago
Currently that money is flowing from the pockets of everyone into the pockets of investors, legislators and workers tied to the healthcare industry. What is the correct amount of profit? Who is to say the healthcare industry was making enough before they started hiking prices? Perhaps they saved their industry? Other countries have cheaper healthcare costs, but maybe they have less healthcare? Sure other countries might be living longer but perhaps that is tied to diet/lifestyle. Maybe Americans are living less because they are working harder, are being destroyed by a bountiful food industry that they can't resist, maybe the healthcare industry is picking up the slack... The solution offered here is a state-controlled market, which didn't work well for the Soviet Union so is it good now, or is this just our last desperate attempt to pick the lesser of two evils? But then is that the solution for out of control internet charges? For out of control property prices?
The single issue we should be focusing on in America, across healthcare, tech, government contracts, is fair markets, not free markets. Free markets are the flag which incumbent industry rallies behind because they can rig the system when there are no rules. Similar to the Glass-Steagall Act which enabled a fairer market for average investors competing against financial institutions, the hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies need to be broken up, so that we can restore a fair market for healthcare. Politically it is our best strategy for an improved service. Since it will raise industry allies, those with solutions that are being unfairly crushed by an uncompetitive industry. Remember we are living in the Citizens United era, corporations have very strong political power. Universal Healthcare is going to cause the healthcare industry to stop infighting, they will circle their wagons, and collude with better effect by engineering supply shortages, confusing legislators using bribery and misinformation, and doubling down on pricing loopholes...
- bazooka_penguin 7y agoIs profit the problem here? Not a horde of unnecessary make-work jobs and overpaid workers?