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Consider the organizational qualities that create successful startups: agility, speed and clear vision. Entrepreneurs live and die by efficiency and effectivene
by pinchyfingers 14y ago
Consider the organizational qualities that create successful startups: agility, speed and clear vision. Entrepreneurs live and die by efficiency and effectiveness. This is the exact opposite of what government programs give us. Believing that any government initiative will enable entrepreneurship is naive. Founders relying on a government cushion to lower risk will be inviting unnecessary encumbrance.
Government programs across the board, from corporate tax credits to welfare programs are universally gamed. Creating a government net to catch failing entrepreneurs will only increase the cost of doing business, while slowing down the pace of entrepreneurship.
Is the goal here to promote new businesses, or is that just an excuse to push for socialized health care? If the goal is provide health care, then the best option is to lower the barrier of entry for new businesses in the health field, whether insurance providers, healthcare practitioners or pharmaceutical companies. This is another topic, but there are many safe and legitimate ways to do this by cutting out corruption and waste.
- pinchyfingers 14y agoHonestly, how is this downvoted? wtf?
- kalleboo 14y agoIf government programs are so inefficient, why is U.S. healthcare the most expensive per capita in the world? I just don't buy the argument that governments do everything terribly.
- skylan_q 14y agoMany complicated reasons. The biggest is supply and demand vs. price controls. With a shortage of medical services in the US, the price has been driven up. Other countries just impose their shortages and have no market to actually drive prices up or down.
- njs12345 14y agoWhat do you mean by "shortage"? I am from the UK and I have observed no shortage. If you really don't want to wait for treatment you're welcome to buy private health insurance, and even if you do this (and still pay for the NHS through some portion of your tax) it will be far less expensive than the average cost of healthcare in the US.
- pinchyfingers 14y agoGovernment inefficiency is the cause of unreasonable expense of U.S. healthcare.
- kalleboo 14y agoBut all the other healthcare systems, which are cheaper, have equal or far higher levels of government intervention.
- subsection1h 14y agoSince we're providing unsubstantiated explanations, I blame Satan.
- eli 14y agoHeh? How would relying on the government to provide some sort of baseline healthcare be fundamentally different from relying on the government to put out fires or collect trash or protect you from invading armies?