I can certainly imagine situations when I would choose waiting another 30 minutes over paying an extra $10k... Can't you?

Ooh, THIS one reuses sharps and passes the savings on to me!

Yeah, but this one provides free mosswort and radium supplements with all limb reattachments!

Communism would have all ERs equally shitty and expensive [to the taxpayer]. Is that all that better?

I mean, your argument holds true for everything. And yet, look around us and compare to any instance of communism on various extents. Capitalism is always better.

> I mean, your argument holds true for everything. And yet, look around us and compare to any instance of communism on various extents. Capitalism is always better.

Modern mixed economies are better, but there is a reason capitalism as a system (rather than a component of another system) died sooner than Soviet-style communism, to the extent that we now unironically call mixed economies with large socialized elements “capitalism”.

Among mixed economies, it's not the more strongly capitalist ones that have the most efficient, effective, or publicly popular health care systems, either.

You can stay off our communist roads then.

Enjoy bartering and purchasing your way across private property to something distant. (Yeah, fat chance you actually hold to your criticisms.)

Bartering? You dont need to State to exchange money :S

This is a very cool dichotomy you've presented me with.

Damn this was a crude comment.