4 ms·
We are being told that markets solve everything and yet the US have the most expensive healthcare in the West and the lousiest internet. The belief is empirical
by HarryHirsch 6y ago
We are being told that markets solve everything and yet the US have the most expensive healthcare in the West and the lousiest internet. The belief is empirically supported.
- chordalkeyboard 6y ago> markets solve everything and yet the US have the most expensive healthcare in the West and the lousiest internet Neither of which are anything close to free markets.
- dagw 6y agoWe are being told that markets solve everything and yet the US have the most expensive healthcare in the West and the lousiest internet For which there are two possible conclusions. 1) Free markets are unable to supply reasonably priced, high quality health care and internet 2) The markets for healthcare and internet in the US aren't Free markets. You seem very sure that possibility 1 is the only correct conclusion, without examining possibility 2.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoThe empirical evidence is that internet is cheaper in countries with local-loop unbundling, and that countries that have price controls for medical care have cheaper healthcare. You can't argue with observable facts.
- dagw 6y agoI'll happy accept that at face value (even if I think the truth of the first statement is slightly more complex that you make it out to be). Just not sure that leads to the conclusions you seem to be drawing from those facts.