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Hey, if you object to privatizing healthcare, why do you hate the free market? Don't you think that private healthcare and insurance companies should be able to

• cmrdporcupine 4y ago
  In reality what we have in Canada is already like that to some extent. Doctor's clinics are private businesses. And they bill the government. Yes the terms of that are fixed (and continually under dispute.) But the profit taking and skimming absolutely happens. Just that, unlike the US, there's a single public payer of it. It ain't socialism. Parts of it may look like it, but most parts do not (unless your definition of socialism is "guvernm'nt does stuff", which is silly). It's also not working particularly well right now.
• StanislavPetrov 4y ago
  >Don't you think that private healthcare and insurance companies should be able to skim billions of dollars off the top of all health-related spending? The drug companies and medical supply companies already do that whether or not healthcare is "private". We need a massive overhaul of the patent system if we ever want to bring down the cost of healthcare.