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[AtheistCrusader]

34. That costs issue is a side effect of requiring hospitals to care for everyone.

You cannot have a requirement like that on a market solution and expect it to work.

Since serving all comers regardless of payment ability IS a desirable requirement, a free market is no longer a viable solution for something inelastic like health care. The bad outcome you cited is EXPECTED due to this cognitive-dissonance solution.

And to counter-point on costs, look at Lasik. Since it went 'live' cost per eye DROPS every single year, as outcomes still improve, as the femtolasers and newer technology continues to improve. Why? Because there is no requirement to serve all comers that enter the business, and they are free to charge what they want, and it's out of pocket, not covered by employer/insurance. This is an example of a free market health related solution. It has not just good, but stellar outcomes, and ever-decreasing cost per eye.


To be clear, I strongly support single-payer universal health care, for precisely all the reasons you raised, and all the info I point out above.