Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "Caller: Wouldn't TOTAL FREE MARKET Healthcare Solve Everything?" video.

  1. Theory verses practice is what people need to understand the most here. A lot of things sound great on paper. They're logical, they sound self evident, even reasonable. But, once things get put into practice, the negative consequences start rearing their heads. Our current system of healthcare was never meant to be a permanent solution. It was the result of WWII laws that forbade wage competition during war time, so companies started offering incentives instead of monetary increases to attract scarce labor. Part of that was the offer of health insurance. It worked for a time, but instead of improving the system or scrapping it in favor or something new, they just expanded it, and many systems don't scale well. Then band-aid solutions to fix issues created perverse incentives, and bam, here we are with one of the worst health-care systems of the industrialized world.
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