The basic problem is when the government gets involved in markets, the logic of the market breaks down.
Because we view medicine as “too important to trust to free markets” we have a thick tangle of laws forcing business to happen in specific ways.
You can’t assume the natural set of incentives are shaping the deals, so you can’t assume the natural set of patterns to appear in the deals being struck.
So, that doesn’t make it make sense. But I hope it makes sense of why it doesn’t make sense.
Yes, let’s blame the government for this one despite deregulation and corporate greed and literally for-profit everything causing the absurd costs of everything medical.
GTFO with that libertarian bullshit. You think less government oversight would cause things to be cheaper?
The basic problem is when the government gets involved in markets, the logic of the market breaks down.
Because we view medicine as “too important to trust to free markets” we have a thick tangle of laws forcing business to happen in specific ways.
You can’t assume the natural set of incentives are shaping the deals, so you can’t assume the natural set of patterns to appear in the deals being struck.
So, that doesn’t make it make sense. But I hope it makes sense of why it doesn’t make sense.
Yes, let’s blame the government for this one despite deregulation and corporate greed and literally for-profit everything causing the absurd costs of everything medical.
GTFO with that libertarian bullshit. You think less government oversight would cause things to be cheaper?
That’s how all those other countries got their (somewhat) functioning health care systems!
Right?