Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care

Re:Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on He... by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:15AM (#16062200)

Government is always the will of some people.

The question is - cui bono?

Your alternative presumably is the current system, where a few self-selected people, kept in power exclusively by wealth, caste, and social connections - often in defiance of real wisdom or foresight - force everyone else to act in ways that benefit that self-sustaining governing class at the expense of everyone else.

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Re:Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on He... by dnautics on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:46AM (#16062547)

No, how about many people act together voluntarily in a distributed system of social support that is resilient to attack by small numbers of powerful people?

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Re:Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on He... by piva00 on Friday January 05, 2018 @05:23AM (#16077758)

Because people need to pool into something to be able to afford big projects for the benefit of all. Government is the effect of this, you collect taxes so you can afford to build a shiny new hospital to attend to a region.

If you want to pool resources collectively in a smaller scale you are just replicating this structure with different powerful people, or different structure of power, but a society will always need it, doesn't matter if resources are money, materials or labour.

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