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"You can't jump half-way across a gorge". Letting it be free market wouldn't work nearly as badly as most people expect. "Socializing" medicine and making it a
by noonespecial 15y ago
"You can't jump half-way across a gorge". Letting it be free market wouldn't work nearly as badly as most people expect. "Socializing" medicine and making it a fully planned section of the economy wouldn't work nearly as badly as most people expect.
Half-assing it between the two will work far worse than most people expect.
- Symmetry 15y agoWell, there there are some places where the government messes about with the healthcare system about as much as we do, and it works out really well. Singapore for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Singapore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Singapore I think the main problem with the US healthcare system is that it's a elephantine monstrosity, a system that tries to hit every corner case with an ad hoc exception, and which nobody can understand more than a fraction of. And there are various boneheaded implementation details, the equivalent of bubblesort - like using the frigging labor theory of value to set physician reimbursement rates. And complex interdependancies that cause different parts of the system to affect each other for very non-obvious reasons. For instance, a rule to prevent people from defrauding Medicare now prevents corporations from giving free birth control to college students like they used to. </rant>