Posted by hhs 1 day ago
If you want to make progress in USA you must separate the crazy left from the moderate left, if you defend the people who want to ban private medicine then you aren't going anywhere. Those aren't your allies even if they pull in a similar direction, even if they sit in the same party in the two party system.
This is only true where medical service providers have no competition. In fact, the state often facilitates this lack of competition.
That is what it implies, there are many in the world who want to ban for profit healthcare and end pay discrimination between jobs. Nobody would ask that question in earnest, its just a rhetorical question to make a point.
You see the issue here right?
Now.. who pays is the question. Imo it must be the state, because otherwise there are too many perverse incentives.
Apparently the only helicopter noise some residents like is the sound of their own, ferrying them to BFI so they can go to Aspen for the weekend.
My own employer has been burnt by consultants essentially moving the deck chairs around to the tune of $800 an hour
I suspect if someone internally made the same suggestions they'd be shot down, but only because they didn't cost so much