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@theobjectivist
Champion of Reason, Individual Rights and Capitalism.
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Get the government out. Completely out. That includes the FDA and the American Medical Association. Phase out Medicaid and Medicare and let insurers produce any products they choose and individuals purchase any they choose. It is called capitalism, and it is what built the greatest healthcare system in the world in the first place. Antibiotics, anesthesia, insulin, the polio vaccine, open heart surgery. Every one of them arrived as a miracle only the rich could reach, and within a generation a working man could afford it. That is what capitalism does with every product it is left alone to make. The price falls toward the cost of production and the thing that once saved only the wealthy ends up on a pharmacy shelf. What you are calling for profit healthcare has not existed here since 1965. What you are looking at is a mixed economy, and a mixed economy is a system in which the government has no principles and therefore no limits. Each control produces a problem, and the problem is then offered as proof that the market failed and more control is needed. In 1942 the government froze wages to fight wartime inflation, so employers who needed workers could not offer more pay. They offered health insurance instead, and Washington ruled that the benefit did not count against the freeze and would not be taxed as income. A dollar of coverage was suddenly worth more than a dollar of wages, and within a decade insurance was something you got from your job rather than something you bought. That is why the patient stopped seeing a price. The man receiving the care, the man choosing the plan, and the man paying the bill became three different people, and nobody in that chain has a reason to ask what anything costs. Medicare in 1965 made the government the largest buyer and put it in the business of dictating what care is worth. The FDA holds a monopoly on the right to sell a medicine. The AMA holds a monopoly on who may practice. A 1986 law compels every hospital to treat whoever walks in and shift the bill to you. And now three quarters of insurer revenue is tax money. There is no profit motive left in that structure to blame. There are men responding to the incentives a legislature wrote. Medicine is a product of the human mind. It exists because particular men chose to study, to invent, to build, and to risk their own capital doing it. To call it a right is to claim those men. You can have the medicine men produce when they are free, or you can have the medicine men produce when they are commanded, and the record of the second is the queue. Nobody is asking you to take capitalism on faith. Compare the fields where the government left medicine alone. Lasik and cosmetic surgery got cheaper and better every year while everything the government touched got more expensive and slower. That is what a price does when the buyer is the one paying it. The fix is not a better plan. It is removing the premise that anyone has the right to plan another man's care, or another man's life.
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@theobjectivist Wow thatโ€™s a lot of words. None of which offer any improvement or solutions to the shitty state of for profit US healthcare.