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Comparing medicine in 1900 and 1970 is just silly, full stop. Regarding everything about 'government' vs 'free market'.. do you feel like you're in a free mar
by jbooth 14y ago
Comparing medicine in 1900 and 1970 is just silly, full stop.
Regarding everything about 'government' vs 'free market'.. do you feel like you're in a free market healthcare system in America? I sure don't. I feel like I have no idea what's going on with medicine and the only difference between my insurance bureaucracy and a government bureaucracy is that the insurance company is actively trying to fuck me rather than just passively doing it.
I'm not saying big government bureaucracies are great -- they're terrible. Yet every other industrialized country's disaster of a bureaucracy is miles better than our private-public system. They have the same cost issues and also have cost inflation, but it's less inflation on a lower cost.