I totally disagree, because there is that invisible, magical hand of the market economy.... :P For sure, that would intervene and make it all right... right? RIGHT?!
Is it NOT clear at this point for everyone that PROFIT is NOT something to build a society on? It is like building the stairway to heaven, using bricks bought from Satan himself (he always has the best deals :P).
Profit is not the suitable incentive for a lot of things... pretty much all society-related systems; think education, infrastructure, environmental protection and so forth.
The false idea is that "profit" makes everything more "efficient", but - as Noam Chomsky explained, the goal of any corporation is to maximize profit, delivering the worst product/ service at the highest price. The social burden when they relocate the production and the cost to the environment are considered "externalities".
In the Western "democracies", the military, police, and - especially - the politicians are "for profit"...
Corporate profits have turned America's consumer product into trash, mostly. And yet I find corporations generally to be the antithesis of efficient, as anyone who has every tried to resolve a problem with a consumer product can attest. Of course too, profit-focus has turned us all apparently into mere consumers, and that has been absolutely disastrous for the health of people and the earth.
But of course; they are mostly lead by business majors, who have ZERO understanding of the technical side, but know only how to please their Wallstreet lords and masters, with stock buy backs and other $#itfu*kery (TM тАЬThe Juice MediaтАЭ)тАж
When the available resources are extracted rather than being invested into the company, one cannot expect good outcomesтАж see Boeing (for example).
ItтАЩs not perfect but it beats everything else. This missing ingredients are honesty, integrity and ethics. Without those, any system is doomed to failure. Since humans are weak and fallible creatures, itтАЩs best not to give too much authority to any of us. IтАЩll take a free market system over any other every day of the week.
The problem is you don't have a free market in healthcare because you have government and insurer coercion messing it all up. If Pharma, doctors, and hospitals had to compete for our business, we'd have a whole industry devoted to ways of evaluating them, like Consumer Reports, JD Power, etc. for buying cars. People would figure out how to make decent choices, just like they do now for everything else. Buyer beware as always.
No one has yet come up with a better system than capitalism --- the freer, the better. It's what's pulled the majority of the world out of abject poverty over the last couple of hundred years. Of course corporations are in it for profit and would destroy us all if left unchecked. Chevy doesn't strive to make their cars better for the benefit of humanity. They do it because Ford will put them out of business if they don't. Yeah, lobbying kind of sucks. So do campaign finance laws. The Founders were geniuses, but they themselves admitted the Constitution was only the best they could do in the time they had available. You can't give people free stuff and expect ;them to be productive.
Yes. Mainstream medicine has become about: "disease creation and maintenance". Period.
It warms my heart and makes me feel optimistic every time I hear an MD speak truth about the system.
LOL, which explains McDonalds INSIDE a heart institute.
Exactly. That's why the Killer Klowns are all smiling!
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I totally disagree, because there is that invisible, magical hand of the market economy.... :P For sure, that would intervene and make it all right... right? RIGHT?!
Is it NOT clear at this point for everyone that PROFIT is NOT something to build a society on? It is like building the stairway to heaven, using bricks bought from Satan himself (he always has the best deals :P).
Profit is absolutely not for building a Health Care system on. Not unless you want them to bleed you until you are dead.
Profit is not the suitable incentive for a lot of things... pretty much all society-related systems; think education, infrastructure, environmental protection and so forth.
The false idea is that "profit" makes everything more "efficient", but - as Noam Chomsky explained, the goal of any corporation is to maximize profit, delivering the worst product/ service at the highest price. The social burden when they relocate the production and the cost to the environment are considered "externalities".
In the Western "democracies", the military, police, and - especially - the politicians are "for profit"...
Corporate profits have turned America's consumer product into trash, mostly. And yet I find corporations generally to be the antithesis of efficient, as anyone who has every tried to resolve a problem with a consumer product can attest. Of course too, profit-focus has turned us all apparently into mere consumers, and that has been absolutely disastrous for the health of people and the earth.
But of course; they are mostly lead by business majors, who have ZERO understanding of the technical side, but know only how to please their Wallstreet lords and masters, with stock buy backs and other $#itfu*kery (TM тАЬThe Juice MediaтАЭ)тАж
When the available resources are extracted rather than being invested into the company, one cannot expect good outcomesтАж see Boeing (for example).
ItтАЩs not perfect but it beats everything else. This missing ingredients are honesty, integrity and ethics. Without those, any system is doomed to failure. Since humans are weak and fallible creatures, itтАЩs best not to give too much authority to any of us. IтАЩll take a free market system over any other every day of the week.
"Free Market" has an elder sister; her name is the Tooth Fairy.
The problem here is "fiat currency", which is not anchored in anything; we need another financial system, anchored in commodities.
Endlessly printing money got us in this predicament.
While I disagree with your тАЬtooth fairyтАЭ comparison, youтАЩre absolutely correct about fiat currency. ItтАЩs actually unconstitutional.
The problem is you don't have a free market in healthcare because you have government and insurer coercion messing it all up. If Pharma, doctors, and hospitals had to compete for our business, we'd have a whole industry devoted to ways of evaluating them, like Consumer Reports, JD Power, etc. for buying cars. People would figure out how to make decent choices, just like they do now for everything else. Buyer beware as always.
There is no "free market" anywhere :P... This is as real as the Tooth Fairy...
If the market would be "free" what would be the need for the legalized bribe called 'lobbying"?
No one has yet come up with a better system than capitalism --- the freer, the better. It's what's pulled the majority of the world out of abject poverty over the last couple of hundred years. Of course corporations are in it for profit and would destroy us all if left unchecked. Chevy doesn't strive to make their cars better for the benefit of humanity. They do it because Ford will put them out of business if they don't. Yeah, lobbying kind of sucks. So do campaign finance laws. The Founders were geniuses, but they themselves admitted the Constitution was only the best they could do in the time they had available. You can't give people free stuff and expect ;them to be productive.
It is just that this is not even "capitalism" anymore; it is financial capitalism, where they don't make money out of money - quite the opposite :P.
As I like to say, both capitalism and communism could work... but they fail, for the same reason:
Flawed Human Nature.