[pzone]

What's with the ad-hominem? At least in the healthcare market, There are good reasons to believe that the massive government intervention is a bad use of resources.

People on Medicaid claim to value the services at only 1/5 of their cost. If you taking that estimate at face value, if you shut down medicaid entirely and just paid each former recipient 20% of the price you'd been paying to provide health insurance, they would be better off. You can debate those numbers and methodology, but it's very suggestive, and very real.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/07/med...

[bryanlarsen]

As the article mentions, if you take away Medicaid people still have access to the prime mechanism for socialized medicine in the US: the law that prevents hospitals from turning away emergency patients.