04-04-2022, 10:40 PM
(04-04-2022, 10:39 PM)Tarzan the apeman. Wrote:(04-04-2022, 09:36 PM)FlyingClayDisk Wrote:(04-04-2022, 09:03 PM)DISRAELI Wrote: I know patriotic Americans will hate this answer, but a fully government managed healthcare system could expel the profit motive. It might even be possible to have medical care "free at the point of treatment".
No it won't!
Did you ever see the movie Office Space? It was a comedy, but the underpinning theme was the notion of incremental increases across a massive data set, namely a few "fractions of a cent across thousands of transactions". Well, this is the exact same way politicians view taxes! They think a seemingly small incremental increase across a massive data set (i.e. us taxpayers) will allow them to fix anything. Crooked big Pharma and insurance companies absolutely LOVE this approach.
Couple the above concept with the notion of ..."We're the Government, and we're here to help you!" (aka...we're gonna' fuck everything up fifty times worse than you could have EVER imagined!)...and you have an award winning recipe for the most incomprehensibly fucked up, non-functional and colossally inefficient as well as expensive system imaginable!
Never, and I mean NEVER, trust the 'government' to "fix" anything, they'll only fuck it up 10x worse!!!!
They fuck it up so they can have job security. Hey look we still have this problem over here that we have tried to fix fifty times. Also, lately, it has been the same people trying to fix what they fucked up. Vicious circle, for us.
Precisely!
Which was pretty much exactly my point!