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> Someone is lying. It’s you, to yourself. What we have is not by any stretch of the imagination a free market solution. It’s insane amounts of paper pushers c
by donatj 5y ago
> Someone is lying.
It’s you, to yourself. What we have is not by any stretch of the imagination a free market solution. It’s insane amounts of paper pushers created by the government. The whole insurance system we have is an impractical mess designed to fail. The free market would never have designed something so customer unfriendly, people would have gone elsewhere had competing solutions been allowed to exist. In a free market, you are free to go somewhere else.
Our health system is designed by the government, by way of outlawing everything else. If you want to talk free market, in the early 1900s it was common for large companies to keep a doctor on staff and offer their services to employees. That was essentially outlawed.
The rise of cash only flat rate doctors in current years is the closest thing we have to free market, and they’re great. Prices posted up front. No back and forth with insurance companies.
- LightG 5y agoThere can never be a free market solution as long as there is a need allocate resources between those who have and those who do not have, without letting the latter not die on the street. I'd be interested in how the free market develops that solution. At the very least, regulation would be involved. And we all know how adept the free market is at getting around regulation. Anyway. I'm off to go lie to myself some more. Cheers.
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- DangitBobby 5y agoWhen was it outlawed and by whom?
- soraki_soladead 5y ago> They don’t exist. They’re the imagined scapegoat for what is actually just a much harder to comprehend creeping bureaucracy cost. > The whole insurance system we have is an impractical mess designed to fail. You shifted the boogeyman from corporate suits to politicians in the space of a few comments. If nobody has malicious intent then nothing was "designed to fail". It just doesn't work as expected or wanted by anyone involved.