NHS introduced market forces with Thatcher, and it became astoundingly worse. It turns out that centralized planning is much better at controlling costs than market forces in inelastic markets.
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The challenge is that this also leads to objectively poor outcomes in aggregate compared to nations with socialized, or partially socialized, healthcare systems because we are dealing with an inelastic product where consumers do not have market transparency. It’s the same logic, to an extent, with regulated utilities.
yup, because we all have such cheap healthcare now. Thanks, market!
Fun fact: research has demonstrated that the more out-of-pocket expenses you impose on insured people, the more they act like UNINSURED people. They just keep putting off their healthcare needs until they become really expensive and difficult to deal with. The whole fucking concept of “skin in the game” is a scam.
No idea :-)
This guy really gets it, folks.
seems like some sort of computing machine would be an easy way to sort out one voice from millions...
You know, Tom, open borders would solve that asylum crisis real quick.
Another day another garbage piece by one of the NYT’s countless garbage writers.
We need to reach across the aisle and compromise. Only eat part of a person.
In a follow-up statement, Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi stated that she “did not feel it was in the best interests of the country” to pursue cannibalism charges, but that Democrats should focus their energy on electing “reasonable, centrist, anti-cannibalism candidates” in the upcoming 2020 election.
bErNiE sAnDeRs!
This is one of my least favorite of all recurring comments.
Huh, wonder if they covered Trump’s Tweetstorm this morning...
They are very sensitive and reactionary.
Boy, this blog really triggered the grays, didn’t it?
Punching down is only funny to a bully.
Conservative humor is without question the worst humor.