Re:The New York Times Is Eliminating Its Public Editor Role
by humanrebar on Thursday June 01, 2017 @09:19AM
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The government can't be rational about what a balanced meal looks like or how tomatoes (fruit? veg?) fit in the picture.
There's a reason food lobbying groups exist.
> Or are you saying eliminate insurers (insurance) altogether?
I'm not saying there's an easy answer, but as long as all health transactions are paying for one party's health with another party's money, we'll have bad outcomes.
If the problem is that it's expensive to live, then let's talk about that problem (negative income tax credit, minimum income, optimize for cost of living, etc.) instead of trying to bureaucracy (private or public) our way into utopia.
There's a reason food lobbying groups exist.
> Or are you saying eliminate insurers (insurance) altogether?
I'm not saying there's an easy answer, but as long as all health transactions are paying for one party's health with another party's money, we'll have bad outcomes.
If the problem is that it's expensive to live, then let's talk about that problem (negative income tax credit, minimum income, optimize for cost of living, etc.) instead of trying to bureaucracy (private or public) our way into utopia.