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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by Something1234 on Saturday February 15, 2020 @05:20PM (#22338422)
I'm confused as to why you're being downvoted.

But I completely agree with you on the free market. My personal issue with going to the doctor is I have no idea what my bill will be at the end of the day.

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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by dmurray on Saturday February 15, 2020 @05:33PM (#22338499)
Perhaps he's being downvoted (not by me!) because the claim is self-contradictory. Either a market based system "always will be better", or it could be "better if they improve the pricing visibility", which is it? Unless he's saying the US system is already superior to all others, but could be made better still. That seems like an ambitious claim.
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by csomar on Saturday February 15, 2020 @06:08PM (#22338673)
A non-transparent system is not one I'll define as a free market based system.
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by dmurray on Saturday February 15, 2020 @06:28PM (#22338775)
That's a "no true Scotsman" problem, though. If the US doesn't (or didn't pre-ACA) have a market-based healthcare system, then who does? And if no one does, how do we know it's better?
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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by asiachick on Saturday February 15, 2020 @08:11PM (#22339189)
No, it's not a "no true scotsman" problem. The US is fundamentally not a market based system. Painting it as such is just wrong.
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