| > I believe the discussion of the "fix" for Healthcare as who has insurance and who doesn't is wrong ... I agree. I'd go so far as to say its evil, and the banality of evil that results in discussions surrounding this topic seems to be fairly delusional, which is rather unfortunate. Thomas Paine had quite a lot to say about "dead men ruling", and that applies to any system where those supporting it are treated no better than slaves. The problem with healthcare is there is currently no market for it. The market that is claimed today is in fact no real market because it is supported wholesale by the government. For a market to exist, you must have competition, and that means you do not cooperate with your competitors. This necessarily requires there to be many competitors (not few) to the point where cooperation becomes impossible. Any centralized system fails because of only a few archetypal failures. Mises covers these failures in his works on Socialism (1930s). So long as there is no market, there can be no solution. It fails completely in 6 different common ways if its a modern central heirarchy, and if its one of any number of sub-niches it may fail in more ways than that. The solution is dependent on incentives, and there can be no real incentive as long as there is free money on the table conjured up by the printing press in the form of preferential loans. Money printing destroys markets slowly over time until they collapse to non-market socialism. This is seen as a sieving action of consolidation over time, its ruinous, and its been happening for well over 50 years now unmitigated. The final leg of the ponzi will occur when outflows>inflows or debt growth exceeds GDP. The fundamental fix isn't a supply side issue. Its a regulatory/corruption issue tamping down any potential market. Also is it even right as a society to allow medical technology that enables one oldest generation to horde all the resources, and as a result out-compete the young with regards to those resources; to the point where the young cannot secure a future and stop having children? The old will age and die regardless. The birth rate is now plummeting because the old have enacted systemic changes and refused to yield their political power to the next generation which should have happened in 2000. People die of old age, there is no escape. Its morally wrong to impose wage slavery on the young by virtue that you spawned them, without representation or consent. The problem itself will resolve in a few years when the great dying starts happening. The folly and banality of evil, of the boomer generation will be one for the history books. How does the saying go, one bad generation is all it takes for society to fall to ruin and destruction? We're living through the proof of that saying. |