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Post by packsince1919 on Sept 28, 2010 1:35:05 GMT -5
Derek and I were discussing this in Vent tonight. Here are some questions that arose that were lightly touched on and will be continued here: Is universal health care sustainable in a capitalist society as a whole? Are parts of universal health care able to be implemented in an otherwise free market system? What is a better alternative to a universal health care system?
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Post by Menthro on Sept 28, 2010 9:18:49 GMT -5
Sure universal health care is sustainable in a capitalist society, however, the quality of said healthcare is going to suffer drastically when compared to healthcare run by a free market. In the free market, all health care companies must compete with one and other, forcing them to raise the standard of healthcare but also reduce the prices. When one has universal healthcare, people will get the mentality, why should I pay for this when its provided for free, Forcing healthcare companies to raise the prices on the remaining people causing more to stop paying etc. which would eventually cause most healthcare companies out of business, which would stop alot of the competition and cause the standard of care to fall of those few remaining people who pay for healthcare. This would also cause the universal healthcare to lower its standard of care because more and more people are using it, making it so each person has less money behind them to pay for the care. Not to mention the fact if healthcare is free (excepting of course the massive taxes required to pay for it) more people would got to the doctors, and for less serious reasons. I.E. going to the doctor for a minor cold. Which would overwork doctors and eventually require more doctors which would force med schools to ave to lower their standards, which lowers the quality of the doctors they produce.
The best alternative, in my opinion, is to free up all restrictions on the healthcare companies, and have very little government over site. Sure prices will initially spike but competing companies will force prices down and quality up. Also, if you''re worried about a huge company becoming unethical or corrupt etc etc the whole fact that they NEED customers to survive will cause said companies to regulate themselves in case they may accidentally alienate said customers. Keep one regulation in place, DO NOT ALLOW A MONOPOLY. Keep that one regulation and the healthcare system will be fine and cover even more people and increase the standard of healthcare.
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Post by Derek on Sept 28, 2010 16:06:42 GMT -5
I agree with most of what menthro said, grammar aside.
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Post by Derek on Oct 19, 2010 15:39:15 GMT -5
yayyy failed debates because no one disagrees
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