On 3/2/2017 4:43 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
The "free market" is what is wrong with "health care" in the US. For-profit hospitals have to make money, so they charge outrageous prices.
Singapore has socialist health care and genuine free market health care. Most people use the free market healthcare, and pay for it out of their own pockets (not quite their own pockets - out of mandatory savings accounts) It is best healthcare system in the world. The prices are fairly similar to the free market health care sectors in India and Thailand. When government guarantees free healthcare for everyone, the hospitals get overrun by bums seeking a free bed and free meals, and by drug addicts seeking free drugs, as for example in Canada. And then the government starts bumping off old people to make room. The problem in America today is that lots of people get free healthcare, and these people go in by the same door, and see the same triage nurse as you do, so there is always a long queue of bums and drug addicts in front of you running up the cost of healthcare. If you are not prepared to let bums and drug addicts drop dead, you wind up bumping off retirees. Which is the Obamacare crisis. Ann Coulter cannot buy health insurance at any price, because bums and drug addicts are in front of her. She can buy what Obama calls health insurance, but it does not cover cancer, broken legs, etc, and has extremely high deductibles, so is effectively not health insurance. And that is the collapse of Obamacare.