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Seriously? Let's see, the two industries where the government has gotten deeply involved, healthcare and education, are so comically expensive one doesn't even

Seriously? Let's see, the two industries where the government has gotten deeply involved, healthcare and education, are so comically expensive one doesn't even know where to begin. How in the world is complete government subsidization, which will basically just turbocharge demand by making it "free", going to solve the problem? The bottleneck (as you correctly note) is labor, if you can't fix that then anything to increase demand is just going to make it wildly more expensive and completely dysfunctional.

BaseballPhysics 4y ago
> Let's see, the two industries where the government has gotten deeply involved, healthcare and education, are so comically expensive one doesn't even know where to begin. The US government is not directly delivering either of those systems. The US government is using public funds to subsidize private delivery, and doing it with virtually no cost controls to ensure those private companies aren't gouging the public. The rest of the world has figured out how to make public healthcare and education work. The fact that the US can't is an indictment of US political leadership and, frankly, cultural values.
crmd 4y ago
> the two industries where the government has gotten deeply involved, healthcare and education, are so comically expensive one doesn't even know where to begin. Education and healthcare are two examples of inherently social enterprises. Allowing profit-seeking firms into these spaces has caused nothing but trouble. Having CEOs in charge of healthcare and education is as stupid of an idea as having government planners deciding the price of cars and how many cars each factory will produce per year. Most enterprises are capitalistic, but some like education and healthcare are inherently social.
urthor 4y ago
Making a conclusion off a single data point is ridiculous. Across multiple countries, only the United States has this problem.

BaseballPhysics 4y ago

> Let's see, the two industries where the government has gotten deeply involved, healthcare and education, are so comically expensive one doesn't even know where to begin. The US government is not directly delivering either of those systems. The US government is using public funds to subsidize private delivery, and doing it with virtually no cost controls to ensure those private companies aren't gouging the public. The rest of the world has figured out how to make public healthcare and education work. The fact that the US can't is an indictment of US political leadership and, frankly, cultural values.

crmd 4y ago

> the two industries where the government has gotten deeply involved, healthcare and education, are so comically expensive one doesn't even know where to begin. Education and healthcare are two examples of inherently social enterprises. Allowing profit-seeking firms into these spaces has caused nothing but trouble. Having CEOs in charge of healthcare and education is as stupid of an idea as having government planners deciding the price of cars and how many cars each factory will produce per year. Most enterprises are capitalistic, but some like education and healthcare are inherently social.

urthor 4y ago

Making a conclusion off a single data point is ridiculous. Across multiple countries, only the United States has this problem.