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eniwetok

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Thu Mar 23, 2017, 10:22 PM Mar 2017

A Fable To Illustrate GOP Dysfunctional Ideas On Competition And Choice In Health Care....

In libertarian... or far Right land... they might believe there should be nothing but private roads... and drivers have choices which to use. Since there'd have to be tolls... competition would drive down prices... and the company that offered the best roads at the cheapest prices would be the winner in the competitive market.

It's the perfect capitalist morality tale.

BUT CONSUMER CHOICE CAN BE EXPENSIVE AND OFTEN INEFFICIENT. The fable ignores all the time wasted in drivers having to make choices and paying tolls... maybe taking longer routes. The fable ignores the overhead of collecting these tolls... or the other wasteful overhead inherent in corporations... profits to shareholders, high exec pay, advertising etc.

Sometimes the cheapest option is to ELIMINATE NEEDLESS CHOICE: get rid of the parasitical middlemen, find a simple funding mechanism, and just offer good service to all.
This might not offer that theoretical "fairness" market fanatics claim consumers deserve... but the lower costs might easily make up for that... AND eliminate bad market choices.

But dysfunctional right wing ideology will never accept the obvious... and True Believers always place their beliefs over all else.

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