public healthcare is a nice idea but we can't afford it. We should allow competition without subsidies, the privatisation of the healthcare system at the moment get the hand outs from government so what's the difference? I'd like a free market, no government involvement at all. Competition will drive higher standards
Idealistic or not, liberty will prevail.
but the young people should be allowed to opt out of paying taxes towards things like the military industrial complex, healthcare and welfare.
We should be able to trade and communicate with other countries instead of bombing them.
.....the US where 51% do not control 49% but we cannot be perfect
Here's a couple of articles weighing up competition in healthcare.http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/24/6/1512.full
http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/ecsb/papers/deaths.pdf
...we find that the relationship between competition and quality of care appears to be negative. Greater competition is associated with higher death rates, controlling for patient mix and other observed characteristics of the hospital and the catchment area for its patients. However, the estimated impact of competition is small.
BBC healthcare costs: (2009) can anyone find a more recent update?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8201711.stm
Slackers, the US system is fucked too. By privatising healthcare, I don't mean the subsidised Medicare/Medicaid system of the US. We have not tried free market competition so how can we compare to it? Get the government out completely - then we would not have any lobbying for who gets to supply the drugs etc. The French system too, the government should not be involved at all
Looking at socialised healthcare and socialism:Slackers, alot of this is looking at the problems that the US system would have with Obamacare, some reference to the UK:http://mises.org/daily/3613http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=279http://mises.org/daily/3586http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae13_2_2.pdfhttp://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae4_4_6.pdf Less important to read: http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae10_4_1.pdfhttp://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae10_1_3.pdf
It didnt feel like there was much balance there...
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