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Theory holds so far. Everything government involvement touches gets more expensive. See healthcare, college tuition, student loan debt as some easy examples.
by brightball 22d ago
Theory holds so far.
Everything government involvement touches gets more expensive. See healthcare, college tuition, student loan debt as some easy examples.
- twalla 22d agoThat’s odd because spend on all of those things per capita is consistently lower with better outcomes where they’re socialized.
- IneffablePigeon 22d agoTwo of those are the same thing and both are much cheaper in countries other than the US where the government is much more involved
- throw0101a 22d ago> See healthcare Medicare is cheaper that US private insurance: * https://www.kff.org/medicare/how-much-more-than-medicare-do-private-insurers-pay-a-review-of-the-literature/ https://www.kff.org/medicare/how-much-more-than-medicare-do-... Also: > A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health. * https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-114000-lives-every-year/ https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage...
- landgrave 21d agoI would say 0/10 apply yourself, but somehow people are still replying