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Originally posted by RoninLB
either you believe the open market and consumer choice can provide better results or you believe gov't mandates and socialism can?
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Can we all just agree to drop the charade the US has free-market economy.? There are LOTS of things that are subsidized, tax-breaked, tariffed, protected, and some goods and services are just flat outlawed.
What we have is a free-market-ish economy with governments to encourage behavior that's healthy to the State as a whole, and to place checks on the market when it's not serving public interest.
Clearly, the millions of uninsured are not be served by the market. Those people still get medical care, but instead of going to doctors' offices, they're getting it at emergency rooms at 10x the cost. Hospitals and grants pay for the uninsured to get this expensive care, so we're paying for it anyway. Why not formalize it? It might even be cheaper than what we have now.