Re:Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills
by amanaplanacanal on Monday December 21, 2020 @03:17PM
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I’m very much a free marketer for most things, as it seems to work well. It’s possible that it might work for health care too, but I don’t think we really know. For a lot of folks the free market is an article of faith, and I think that’s where a lot of support for this idea comes from.
Even if a free market could work in the US, I have no idea how we could get from here to there without making things worse along the way.
Re:Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills
by Brian_K_White on Monday December 21, 2020 @03:08PM
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I look forward to the utter absense of any answers to this question, or the entertainingly inventive ones.
Almost every other developed country has a system that works for healthcare. It's almost always single payer or something where you definitely don't go shopping around for hospitals.
Doesn't it start to feel a bit like indoctrination when arguing for a "free market" when no other developed country has a free market for healthcare?
Is everyone else stupid? What aren't they seeing? Especially in the age of the internet?
I just can't follow this logic.
I would love to get someone who argues from the "free market" point of view do some introspection and explain the logic in a way that doesn't feel like repeating the same 2-3-4 ideas which as far as I can see, are common talking points in the US.
So, repeating the question, what is every other developed country missing?
Why aren't they all doing this, if it's obviously superior?