John_Innocent

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by John_Innocent 10y ago
I don't know but if I had to speculate, I'd say the US has less efficient government, because of factors like greater wealth (more complacency toward waste and corruption) and a larger and less homogenous population (a less cohere
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by John_Innocent 10y ago
>I did address it, and you are ignoring it. I honestly do not care how insulted you are, or how rude you think I am. That's simply untrue. Where did you address it. Let me reiterate, you have not responded to this: >Having the me
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by John_Innocent 10y ago
"I succinctly recognized these so-called mechanics are really just symptoms of other underlying actions and motivations. " I have no idea what that means or what you're referring to. You still haven't addressed any of th
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by John_Innocent 10y ago
>food production and distribution is also heavily regulated. Nowhere near as much as healthcare. Sorry I can't provide any concrete evidence of that
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by John_Innocent 10y ago
The price trends of food and healthcare couldn't be more different. There's clearly something more than agricultural subsidies at work explaining the difference, given healthcare receives many fold more subsidies. In fact, it&#x27
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by John_Innocent 10y ago
Having the means to pay and needing the service for life or death reasons have nothing do with the forces that drive costs down, namely consumers bargain hunting for the lowest price service that offers adequate an level of quality. Neither
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by John_Innocent 10y ago
That's why we shouldn't have an insurance based system. Like Ron Paul (who has been a medical doctor since the early 1960s) says, health insurance should be for catastrophic medical events, not for routine checkups and minor ailme
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by John_Innocent 10y ago
Anyone who identifies the problem and the solution is labeled a free market ideologue and ignored. This is the solution: http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/st349.pdf It's not a mystery why all of the industries suffering th
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by John_Innocent 10y ago
Where do you get the idea that government is not involved in subway building in a big way in the US? Perhaps there are more legal/regulatory barriers in place to build a subway in the US than in Europe. >Thus government itself is no
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by John_Innocent 10y ago
There was no runaway growth in cost when government first started getting involved in those industries in a big way. The cost disease began in all developing economies after large scale government intervention began. >In the graphs you c
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by John_Innocent 10y ago
>This is critical, because it makes them actually price-sensitive. You can't choose not to have heart disease, though. But the sectors experiencing the cost disease do not universally share the property of having inelastic demand. I
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by John_Innocent 10y ago
Isn't it obvious? All of the fields experiencing the cost disease are dominated by government. Either through massive funding, or vast numbers of regulations. Even within sectors, we see the pattern. For example, the two fields of medi