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Re:High-Deductible Health Policies Linked to Delayed Diagnos... by CyanBird on Saturday April 20, 2019 @09:34PM (#19710023)
> if public truly is better, then it will promptly show it in the open market.

And that's exactly what happened, most developed countries have got variants of socialized healthcare

Also, market failures happen all the time, it is never a good idea to rely on "Free Market Fanaticism" as that easily leads to catastrophe without oversight

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Re:High-Deductible Health Policies Linked to Delayed Diagnos... by conanbatt on Saturday April 20, 2019 @11:00PM (#19710298)
> And that's exactly what happened, most developed countries have got variants of socialized healthcare

At least by the accounts of the Social Transformation of american medicine, european health systems were pretty much top down, but the AMA was so politically powerful that it was able to fight it effectively.

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