More on healthcare
by Bill at 10/24/2004 10:21:00 PM
Here's an excellent op-ed peice on healthcare and the benefits of a single payer system from the New York Times. Read it and enjoy!
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I've often thought that a free market solution for healthcare just doesn't exist. Even considering simple supply and demand curves doesn't make sense - what price would one put on the health or life of a family member? Will we (like good libertarians) just allow the sick who are unlucky or unwise enough to have not saved for their care to suffer? I don't have the economics background to make my point more convincingly than that, so I mostly shy away from discussing it.
The other solution, "socialized" universal healthcare, however, seems to be working in just about every industrialized nation in the world. Yet many in the US deny the obvious because it doesn't fit into our notions of how things should be.
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