@iska@mstdn.starnix.network I said the healthcare system was functional and now is not, and that the difference is the result of political scheming, I don't really understand what you find objectionable in my description of it.
It's also naive and I think idealist to pretend that a pure free market approach would deliver affordable or prompt healthcare to all. For people with simple healthcare needs, this can work, for those with complex health needs, this leaves them with nothing whatsoever.
@evelyn
healthcare was functional and now it's not
You said people waited over a year for healthcare even before the queen died? And the quality is literally a meme.
Isn't being so prone to political scheming also a problem?
naive to pretend pure free markets would work...
Medicine is cheap outside of big pharma, US healthcare would effectively cost near world average in "pure free markets", at least with my calculations.
I never implied equality or perfection, just that it's preferrable to relying on the state that suddenly denies or kills people that are always paying for it.
@evelyn
healthcare was functional and now it's not
You said people waited over a year for healthcare even before the queen died? And the quality is literally a meme.
Isn't being so prone to political scheming also a problem?
naive to pretend pure free markets would work...
Medicine is cheap outside of big pharma, US healthcare would effectively cost near world average in "pure free markets", at least with my calculations.
I never implied equality or perfection, just that it's preferrable to relying...