Medical Care Government Scam
Even if we had a nonviolent market for medical services, some advanced life-saving technologies would remain too expensive for most people. Fortunately, the nature of the need for these services presents a solution that the market readily provides: insurance. This means people who don’t need services right now can buy insurance and pool their resources. When they need an expensive service, the insurance company, which makes money by providing the service of pooling risk, pays for it. Of course this is not a perfect solution, but it is a very powerful way to give the poor access to treatment they might never be able to afford individually.
Unfortunately, many insurance corporations end up with the same special privileges as the best government sponsors. This leads to lower accountability to the consumer by limiting choices, often resulting in denial of coverage and hospital bills that bankrupt families. In some places, government has taken over the medical insurance industry as the sole provider. This may have an effect on helping the poorest of the poor temporarily, but eventually it hurts everyone by making care less accessible or by inefficiently diverting so many resources into the medical industry that other areas of the economy suffer.
We all want reassurance that the medical care we get is safe. This demand is enough to drive a lot of resources towards safety and consistency of care. Many governments exploit our fear of medical tragedy to take over this essential market function. They require licenses to provide treatment, approval to distribute drugs, and obedience to regulations for all the ways medical care is paid for. When governments require a license, they force people to meet their standards, which often stifles innovation. The standards are often meaningless, but because people trust government, they will accept treatment from anyone as long as they have government approval. That’s how most horror stories occur, rather than from people working without a license. Where governments control drug safety, the results are staggering: millions of people have died from government-approved drugs, and millions more have died while life-saving drugs were kept off the market. Government control of the medical industry has the same disastrous effects on prices, availability, safety, and customer satisfaction as in any other industry.
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Thats whats happens when you have socialize healthcare :(
madical care is a system its alawys coll thanks for shereing
As much as I want medical care to be decentralized, the reality is that the medical system has become so entrenched with bureaucracy that we are decades away from unraveling it. The problem is that there are so many different aspects to medical care including insurance of patients, physicians, providers, liability, quality of care, licensing, etc., that just saying, "Let's make it all free market," isn't going to work right now. I used to think it was simple enough that getting government out of it would be the solution, but unfortunately, that's not the case. The inevitable solution is getting government out of medical care, but before we do that, we as libertarians or anarchists really need to understand the breadth and depth of all the issues involved in the medical industry. If anyone is interested, I would highly recommend the following hornbook to begin to grasp the intersection of all these issues: https://www.amazon.com/Health-Law-Hornbooks-Barry-Furrow/dp/0314289070