• Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      449 months ago

      The ACA was supposed to have a public option that would put a control on the insurance prices. Ideally the public option would be so good that the insurance industry would just wither and die.

      But the health insurance industry, mainly via Joe Lieberman, made sure that was never going to happen.

    • @[email protected]
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      279 months ago

      Letting Doctors use the “free market” set medical prices is not only sinful, it is not justifiable by the most originalist economic theory.

      That’s not even what’s happening. It’s vampire middlemen setting the prices, which is even worse.

    • Zorque
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      99 months ago

      Unfortunately Capitalism by its very nature abhors a free market. Free markets mean more competition, which means less profits. Which is counter to the ideology of capitalism, that being higher profits mean success.

      • @[email protected]
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        79 months ago

        Capitalism is fundamentally unstable and will devolve into monopoly and autocracy if not regulated to prevent it.