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> No public healthcare system was set up this way 40 years ago. Okay. I mean, you could look it up [1] and check when the private insurance companies and coops
by luckylion 4y ago
> No public healthcare system was set up this way 40 years ago.
Okay. I mean, you could look it up [1] and check when the private insurance companies and coops (kinda) in Germany were founded, or you could just declare that it definitely wasn't ever done so. Whatever floats your boat.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany
- unity1001 4y agoYou must have missed the part that I said that there being legal allowances for the system to have turned out how it is now does not mean that it was set up like that. Solely the strong presence of the state and the state rendering sufficient number of services can keep things under control in an actual mixed landscape through the pressure of pricing and availability. Which was the case in most jurisdictions. Privatization in such systems starts when the state supplied services are crippled by 'reformers'. Even in wholly public systems, first allowing 'some' private medicine then strangling the public one to channel the activity to private ones and then justify privatizing everything is the go-to tactic.