ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

[David Horn]

(01-22-2017, 11:48 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: The reason it's stupid to tie health care to employment is because then the incentives are misaligned between the payer - the employer - and the patient, resulting in inefficient allocation of resources.  That problem applies in spades when you tie health care to the government.

What's needed is for people to pay for their own health care, whether it's directly or through an insurer.  If you really want to subsidize it, give everyone a voucher or a universal basic subsidy.

Healthcare is not a product or even a service in the commercial sense.  It has more in common with fire and police protection.  Are you OK shopping for those 'services'?  Are you even capable of doing it?

There was a time in the past when Fire Services were fully private.  Rent The Gangs of New York for a tutorial on how well that worked.