Posted: May 09, 2012 6:03 pm
mrjonno wrote:Allegedly the US doesnt have competition in its medical care and produces poor results
The rest of the world definitely doesnt have competiion and produces generally better results.
So in theory a full free market make produce wonderful results but there is no evidence for it so shouldnt you go with results that are avaliable when dealing with peoples lives?
Are you talking to me? Because...
Loren Michael wrote:I'm definitely sympathetic to a strong welfare state, including healthcare. Market failure is too much of an issue, the costs and likelihood, as far as I can tell, are too high in the healthcare industry.
Loren Michael wrote:I'm sympathetic to the notion that market forces don't work for some important aspects of healthcare (at least in a way that is satisfying to me), but I'm not willing to say that there isn't some organization that would allow market forces to work in a way I would find satisfying. It's possible that there isn't, but it's also possible it hasn't been discovered yet or it could simply be possible that I haven't been appraised of it.
It looks like my pushback against what I regard to be misconceptions about scarcity and anti-market orthodoxy are being confused for some kind of political position.