Milton Friedman conceded, "your money or your life" is not a "free choice." In your opinion do you think this might apply to healthcare?
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What % of healthcare decisions are "life saving" procedures? That's a tear jerking anecdote, not an argument for confiscating 1/6 of economy
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There's such a thing as quality of life. A torn ligament isn't life threatening, but walking around in constant pain isn't something to do
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Ha, yes. My point exactly. Ppl shop for quality of life. That's what improves quality of life.
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You're going to have a lot more Nick Rivieras in that system
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Why? R u that gullible, or it's just others? Restricting the supply of Doctors makes healthcare more expensive.
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It happens with lawyers today. The people who accept less tend to provide worse service/more work done by paralegals
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Lawyers also operate a cartel. Again, the point is self-refuting: much legal work can be done by non lawyers and lawyers vary in quality
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Wow, I never expected this from the beast. Heartening to see them acknowledge some of the damage the government has done to HC
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Matt was previously at the Daily Caller. I hadn't known he was now at beast either. Good for them to get some balance.
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Matt, I'd add in the tremendous amount of long-standing regulation of the insurance industry, including restricting interstate competition.
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That's not gonna change. Every state will have different regulations.
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What I'm trying to get at here is that it is foolish to pretend the status quo before O'Care was free market insurance. It wasn't.
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Insurance markets generally tend to oligopoly. Health care, esp prinary care or things like that can be free. Insurance requires scale.
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All true. I was already taking the need to alleviate natural monopoly tendencies in my comment, trust me. But actual reg scheme is otra cosa
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When profit is the primary motivator, the sickest among us will suffer the most.In the end, society must pick up the tab one way or another
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Get govt out. Corrupts everything (cf 2007/2008). Free markets work. We never had one in healthcare.
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No. The problem is we elected a corrupt con man to be president. Health care needs to be provided by government to take profits out of costs
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Worked really well for the VA huh?
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Human nature. Businesses have many failures leading to people dying, poisoning environment, etc. They're subject to corruption, waste, fraud
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And government isn't? Are you one of those lazy overpaid bureaucrats? How is government somehow exempt from human nature?
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