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Geez are you really arguing that the US is somehow a model for access to health care and that it's because of the free-market? Is that why the more economically

Geez are you really arguing that the US is somehow a model for access to health care and that it's because of the free-market? Is that why the more economically free (according to the heritage institute) Switzerland has better health care outcomes than the US at a lower cost? If so, how does that explain the access to health care in the dramatically less economically free Cuba? Maybe it's because they both have universal health care? Why does the US has an avoidable mortality rate closer to poor eastern bloc countries than the rest of Europe?

nickpp 3y ago
US health care is not a free market, it's heavily regulated. As a person living in the Eastern Block right now, I'd invite you to use the medical facilities in my town but I am not that cruel. Luckily free private health care is becoming increasingly good so soon the state-provided horror show will become a distant memory like the communist era that spawned it.
- chefandy 3y ago
  So... about Switzerland.
  - nickpp 3y ago
    As a non-Swiss-resident who has to use the Swiss health-care system for anything less urgent than emergency services I can report that the private health-care in Switzerland is quite developed and quite expensive.