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by VikingCoder 2980 days ago
Healthcare should not be a market.

If you need a heart transplant, and I know you need a heart transplant, you're in kind of a lousy position to negotiate, aren't you?

I don't buy some Defense tokens or insurance on some market. I pay taxes for National Defense.

Don't get me wrong, capitalism is awesome. And I worked in healthcare software for about 13 years. But applying capitalism to basic, necessary healthcare is no good.