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And why exactly is it that we aren't continually having this debate over skilled workers building and maintaining road infrastructure? Firefighters? Police offi
by jrajav 3y ago
And why exactly is it that we aren't continually having this debate over skilled workers building and maintaining road infrastructure? Firefighters? Police officers? Postal workers?
I truly don't understand how we have many successful and thriving examples of publicly funded services, yet somehow healthcare - which we all equally need, and which is equally a backbone of a healthy society - is somehow unique in needing profit incentives to function.
The free-market theory only applies to products which you have a choice to engage with, and which are not essential to life and the basic productivity of all society.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoHave you genuinely never heard a debate about private policing, private toll roads, etc…? Private police patrolling is often far more controversial than all the healthcare debate combined.
- semiquaver 3y agoThe real answer in the US is vested interest. The health case sector accounts for 20% of US GDP, double the value in countries with better outcomes and nationalized systems. Fixing the system so it doesn’t cost so much is against the financial interest of an enormous number of people. Sometimes democracy leads to suboptimal outcomes like this.