My periodic health care 101 post
One of the most important issues in the upcoming election -- as it has been now really for decades, to some degree -- is of course health care. (I prefer to say " medical services, " for a couple of good reasons, but I ' ll have that fight another day.) Conservative politicians like to extol the so-called free market™, and tout " market solutions " to health care. The libertarian fantasy free market™ does not in fact exist, never has existed, and never can exist.It is true that markets of one kind or another are effective ways of organizing production and distribution of goods and services, and allocating resources, in many instances. But markets are always regulated, and structured by law, policy, and government intervention. They are not forces of nature, they are socio-political constructions, and in complex modern societies that construction is and must be done by government. I won ' t go into this at greater length here, but if you want to argue with it as a general assertion you ' ll be in trouble. It is also true that we learned in the 20th Century that societies that have substantial sectors in which private enterprises operate within these structured and regulated markets, have been more prosperous and sustainable that societies in which state-owned industries dominate the economy. Whether someone might be able to come up with a model for state dominance that works better than actually existing communism is imponderable, but it hasn ' t happe...
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