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Maybe this is splitting hairs, but it's more a problem with worshipping corporate capitalism. I don't think you can really describe healthcare in the US as a fr

by dfxm12 5y ago

Maybe this is splitting hairs, but it's more a problem with worshipping corporate capitalism. I don't think you can really describe healthcare in the US as a free market.

lokar 5y ago
None of the people referred to in the parent want a real free market.
- avs733 5y ago
  They don’t know what a free market is.
  - lokar 5y ago
    I think they know very well, that's why they spend so much effort avoiding it.
avs733 5y ago
It’s the same thing…while the people here might be willing to split hairs on the exact meaning of those terms the people you are taking about are not going to. Strategic ambiguity around “freedom” “free market” etc is a useful tool to prevent change. It creates a self reinforcing mythology in peoples heads and enough confusion about reality that blaming the victims for being “unprepared” can exist in the broad/abstract while also still feeling empathy and dying “that’s bad” in individual cases.