Posted: May 08, 2012 9:23 pm
Wiðercora wrote:Loren Michael wrote:Wiðercora wrote:I've often heard opponents of UHC declare that 'healthcare is a privilege, not a right'. This baffles me. Healthcare is one of those things, that if you don't get, you might die - how can not dying not be a right?
I assume it's just a phrase people just use without mind to the meaning, but it could be that the people who do think about it are referring to the scarce aspects of healthcare. It's a limited resource. Rights like the ability to vote, freedom to assemble, these sort of things can be reasonably thought of as qualitatively different.
If it's limited, surely it should be managed by a central authority with the logistical ability to look after such an enterprise, instead of a disaparate group of competing companies.
Not really. Almost everything(pretty much everything economics concerns itself with) is scare. I would say for most things a pricing/market system will allocate it better than an authority.
Although in health care I'm not really convinced the market logic properly applies so I imagine for this specific topic we may agree.