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Corruption hides in a complexity. A true “universal” program with no gatekeepers, no special qualifiers beyond citizenship, has a much smaller attack surface fo
by rapind 5y ago
Corruption hides in a complexity. A true “universal” program with no gatekeepers, no special qualifiers beyond citizenship, has a much smaller attack surface for corruption than the status quo. As soon as you introduce qualifiers and people to police those qualifiers you will get corruption.
The problem is that most universal programs are not truly universal.
Ideally the fed only does unconditional universal (I shouldn’t have to prefix this with unconditional since that’s redundant), and leaves everything else to the state and below.
- hhhhnbhhhh 5y agoThere's no such thing as "true universal" healthcare and can't be because it has an inherently limited supply.. Either you have market pricing (existed before Medicaid), shortages of care with rationing (talk to old people from Canada and the UK if you don't think their health care is rationed), or some gross hybrid (the current American system)
- d6e 5y agoWhat do the Nordic countries do?