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actually the dutch health care system is described as a "managed chaos". people have a lot of choices in said chaos. maybe worth looking into. too much order is as horrible as too much chaos. maybe even worse. and there are a lot of things about the status quo that are great, but people rarely notice them unfortunately. for example, i like not having famines, i like having drinking water and electricity, central heating and air conditioning, affordable private independent transportation, i like my private health insurance, and i like not having compulsory military service, and i wouldn't give up any of that voluntarily. not all change is good and revolutions often end up in disaster. but you'll find out eventually. switzerland has better universal healthcare than your country through fully private markets, with some subsidies for low income. insurance is really compulsory there though, with possible prison sentences for avoidance, but at the same time the industry is highly regulated. it is also decoupled from work, which means you need not be afraid to leave your job. obamacare went half-ass on the swiss model. it's all they could squeeze. but there are many ways to reach universal healthcare. government takeover of the medical profession is not the only one. personally, having experienced government healthcare, i like to have a choice of provider. Quote:
what interests are those? and i don't know about the cases she prosecuted, honestly. anyway i guess you never read about comissars and informant networks and gulags under communism. "progressive" rule means big government, which% |
which means a big law enforcement apparatus. from the car that drives around looking for unlicensed tv sets to the enforcement of alcohol monopolies, price controls, etc., anything unsanctioned requires a cop. the bigger the government, the more prosecutors you need to prop up every rule.
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i'm old enough to have seen the end of stalinism. why did the east germans need to corral people? lmao. please, man. when everything belongs to the government, the government belongs to the few and the elite, and the authoritarians are in charge. it is the logical conclusion of these theories. no amount of wordsmithing can change that. we already found out empirically. i grew up in various latin american countries with various degrees of socialistic policies. they were all a fucking disgrace and only succeeded in distributing poverty and increasing corruption. for a contemporary scenario just look at venezuela. please. eta: oh! i also spent almost a year in an israeli kibbutz back in the 90s. no young people wanted to stay so they had to import thai workers. ha ha ha! Quote:
the foremost fiction is that they are FREE, of course. there is no such thing as free goods and services. everything must be paid for. we have unlimited desires, but limited resources which have alternative uses. so every economic choice is a tradeoff. the tradeoff is the cost. if you begin from the fallacy of free good an services, and no scarcity, and no tradeoffs, you're just operating in fantasy space. just because the costs are hidden from sight or papered over with rhetoric, it doesn't mean that the costs are not there. in fact, governments are almost always offer higher costs and lesser quality goods and services than private enterprise. i am actually tempted to say “always” but i cannot be sure. vast majority of cases i am right though. Quote:
i'm not here to defend militarism. however, beware of power vacuums and greedy neighbors. Quote:
see, this is what you need to know what you're talking about before making up "theories". the guy who makes little money actually receives taxpayer-funded healthcare through the government. obacamare actually forces you into medicaid when you don't make enough. so this imaginary person with his gofundme you're talking about is already receiving berniecare. i actually know actual real cancer patients who get cancer treatment this way and they don't have gofundmes. Quote:
good luck selling "scandinavian system" to america. i don't think the culture is there, and i don't think that people will like the tradeoffs once they actually experience them. getting mandatory health insurance is hard enough. government takeover of the health industry-- many will hold their noses and vote for trump. so we'll see how that goes. show me something solid and some figures instead of rhetoric. but i know that printing infinite money *does not work.* give everyone 'free dollars" and inflation ensues. good luck decreeing price controls to control inflation, lol. we'll all start paying with swiss franc or yen. Quote:
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GoFundMe CEO: One-Third of Site's Donations Are to Cover Medical Costs People Are Raising $650 Million On GoFundMe Each Year To Attack Rising Healthcare Costs "But the big business of GoFundMe is now medical bills. Since the company’s founding in 2010, it reports having raised $5 billion. Of that, a third went to the 250,000 medical campaigns the site conducts annually. Simple multiplication suggests that the number of people who have sought help has run into the millions." Just because you have not met cancer patients who have had to resort to desperate measures to get help does not mean that there aren't MILLIONS out there who are just shit out of luck from no fault of their own. This is just one tiny sliver example of the many issues that a for profit system generates. Quote:
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what is "universal" to you. "it comes from the universe"? blanco please! stop lying! my private insurance is great. one year when things went to shit with my business obamacare forced me into medicare. i refused and refused but eventually tried and... it was a fucking joke! they kept putting me in and taking me out of it. at the same time they took the catastrophic health insurance plans off the table. so the government actually placed me in health insurance limbo TRUE STORY Quote:
what limits consumer choice is government meddling in markets--at the behest of existing market players of course. like when the gubmint took away my catastrophic $200/month plan and gave me some fake medicaid i never wanted. Quote:
ok so this government that jails mothers and shoots black people is who you want to run the health care system? lmfao Quote:
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so are you talking about a social safety net or a "fundamental change"? you got me confused now Quote:
i don't know the logical conclusion because i'm not looking for it. i do not presume to deduce the ultimate goal of history like a marxist. capitalism is doing great lifting billions out of misery in a way that no utopian absolutist ever could (they inflicted misery instead). as for the elite schools... any system where connections rule over performance is going to be corrupt. in socialism where everyone is "equal money", political connections are the real currency. i prefer to pay with money, thanks. Quote:
yes yes same as the libertarians. "we've never had true libertarianism!" lmao. pipe dreams. like i said above (i was editing, maybe you didn't see) i spent nearly a year in a kibbutz. as ideal as socialism gets. they recently added some capitalist fixes and stopped hemorraghing people Quote:
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250k campaigns a year for 8 years that's 2 million campaigns. like i said before, a lot of people remain uninsured because obamacare did not go far enough and/or it actually raised their premiums. again, i'll take the swiss model over your national army. Quote:
even non-money scenarios are subject to these limitations. we always have to choose and we have limits. Quote:
yeah, they've engaged with socialism in books and speeches. i've engaged it in the flesh. not again, thanks. Quote:
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We could probs go back and forth all day on this hahah. You seem to struggle with the idea that socialism of the new does not need to be like socialism of the past. If you had free healthcare you wouldn't need to think of healthcare plans like, at all? It's not this airy fairy idea, god. Disregarding the far left chatter for a sec, the healthcare issue has literally been solved by making it free and paying for it through sliding scale taxation. What about this is so crazy? The USA is 37th (!) in the World Health Organization's ranking of the world's healthcare systems yet it is the most powerful nation on earth. You guys are behind a lot of countries with a lot less economic power. How is this okay to you? Do you think it matters that people in your very wealthy country have no health insurance and die penniless? I just don't get it man.
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Okay then, continue on with your tragic, horrific healthcare system that devastates millions of lives all for the profit of a few.
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and i am very much for fixing america's health care failures, but i don't think a wholesale government takeover is the way to go.
i am actually for a VOLUNTARY public option. let those who want expanded medicaid pay for it. let every type of service fund itself. |
I mean, if you want private health insurance in the UK you can have it. It's not forbidden, there are private hospitals here too. Still doesn't mean that the national health service isn't justified.
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you're setting up fake oppositions between imaginary "free" lies and disaster. your health care is not free. everyone pays a lot of money for it. |
Well maybe it's right that everyone pays into the service that so benefits their lives (and saves them). The thing is that even if you can only pay a little, you still get the right to healthcare as a person with dignity who will get sick sometimes. What's wrong with that? Not to mention that it's a proven fact that poverty and poor health are linked greatly. Unless you're just bitter that you've done well for yourself and have to pay a bit more than others for the betterment of the country's most vulnerable? That's honestly the only stance I can take mentally that could justify thinking for profit healthcare is a better alternative.
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the question LIKE EVERY TRADEOFF is: is it worth the money you pay for it? -- see, taxes are neither free nor unlimited. they're a drag on the economy. yes, in turn they provide a public benefit. too little taxes, you get no public services too much taxes, the economy slows down and your revenue is actually smaller. figuring out tax rates requires a fine touch. at the same time, just because you're getting tax revenues it doesn't meant they are unlimited. you always have to choose. you have to ration. these are hard questions. if you could save a baby's life by letting 10 adults die, would you do it? what about 2 adults? how much is it reasonable to spend on any one patient? |
Weren't they in trouble recently? I dunno, that's vague. The UK is two places ahead of Switzerland in WHO's rankings of the world's healthcare systems and nearly all of the positions ahead of the UK are countries with a national health service. You can rhetoric it all up yourself like you said I was doing, but the evidence is all on my side.
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the gofund mes that you find are probably from middle class people who refused to take out insurance. 2 million beggar campaigns in 8 years, but still 20 million a year refuse to buy insurance or simply can't because premiums went up after obamacare. but like i already said, ***really poor people get medicaid already*** **poor people in america get "free" (as you like to call it) government health care*** so that's already in place. i am not "doing well for myself" nor "bitter". i live on very little, but i simply accept that life has tradeoffs. i know there is no pie in the sky so i am not asking for a slice. YOUR HEAVENLY PIE IS LIES. |
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last i heard it was crumbling. please show me the stats this is a random google not even top 10 https://fr.april-international.com/e...thcare-systems 18 https://www.internationalinsurance.com/health/systems/ 18 http://thepatientfactor.com/canadian...ealth-systems/ the experts like the swiss and french https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...y-bracket.html etc. yes the american system NO DOUBT needs fixing but there are better models than your national army and the proposals of demagogues of all stripes. bernie is just like trump: all promises of "free" shit, and magical bullshit with no tradeoffs |
oh uk is top 10 in "efficiency" not quality.
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How do those links invalidate what I'm saying about a national health service? The UK's healthcare system's issue is a lack of funding from the Tories as they keep taxes low for the obscenely wealthy and turn a blind eye to blatant offshore accounting by billionaires while they sell it off piece by piece to private companies for a huge profit that does not benefit anyone other than other obscenely wealthy people. Our healthcare system is getting worse because we are starting to follow YOUR model.
I repeat, the number one most powerful country in the world ranks 37th in healthcare. |
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