[ExI] Yet another health care debate

[Stathis Papaioannou]

2008/9/22 Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com>:

> Can you perhaps give me a hint of your thought on the following
> questions. Why not have the government pay for all food? Isn't
> food just as important (or perhaps vastly more important) than
> medical care?  How about transportation, or perhaps electrical
> power? I anticipate that you will find at least some of these
> problematical, and so I wonder what makes health care different
> in your eyes.

Well, this is the whole point! Food has been socialised in the past,
and it hasn't worked. People are hungrier than they were under a free
market. But, for whatever reason, socialised medicine has been shown
empirically to work, something recognised even in countries which are
otherwise even more pro free market than the US.


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Stathis Papaioannou