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Google "US health expenditure vs life expectancy" and "adverse selection in healthcare", read the top few links and get back to me. You're making several basic
by djrobstep 5y ago
Google "US health expenditure vs life expectancy" and "adverse selection in healthcare", read the top few links and get back to me.
You're making several basic mistakes thinking about freedom, because once again you're not even familiar with basic knowledge of the topic. In particular:
- Confusing the quality and quantity of choices. Free healthcare increases freedom because it increases overall quality of choices people can make - if you'd even encountered the concept of the capability approach to human welfare (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach) you wouldn't have made this basic mistake.
- You're conflating capitalism with freedom, when in fact capitalism is built on top of property law, a very anti-freedom system. Property is the biggest government program their is, and is enforced with violent anti-freedom, liberty-destroying government force.
In other words, you're so ideological you're not even wrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong).
- WalterBright 5y agoYou didn't read the article I cited. Please return when you have. BTW, the Soviet Union didn't allow people to own property, and had free healthcare. People were so free there they had to build a wall around it and shoot people who tried to escape. Ditto for every other communist country. And where do those freedom-loving people want to go? The US. So many, in fact, that the US had to build a wall to keep them out. What do all those people know that you missed?
- djrobstep 5y agoPeople in Norway with high taxes, high state ownership of the economy, and a great welfare state seem to be happily staying in Norway rather than clamouring to move to the USA for the extra “freedom”, even in spite of the weather. What do all these people know that you missed?