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by _heimdall
732 days ago
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> The foolproof solution (if such a thing could ever exist) - is to not have a healthcare system that is built for-profit. Well we 100% agree here. The system you describe sounds totally reasonable to me as long as the government is managing things reasonably. I'd extend this problem to effectively every industry too. Profit is such a corrupting factor in any business and really ruins most things. Free markets, capitalism, whatever I get all of that but creating incentives entirely around winning a zero sum game is terrible for everyone in the long run. |
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Bingo!
The issue is, especially in Canada, which people don't seem to know is a "free" healthcare system structured fundamentally differently than the other more successful systems.
The primary issues I believe are rigid centralization - along with nepotism, and the single point of failure-capture that is then possible in a highly controlled-centralized system, where the people - the voters - get no say; e.g. when the health system doesn't have elected administrators.
In the US, I believe most states and cities, judges and police captains are elected? In Canada, we don't have that even.
There are pros and cons to "both" systems, and there are solutions to better select for the pros in both.