re: Universal Healthcare systems are broken...

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Of course there is upward pressure. What's the upward pressure in any government system?

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Upward pressure on an appointed bureaucrat?

What pressure do I exert on the NIH grant process as a normal citizen? That would the analogy to my upward pressure on universal healthcare.

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Healthcare systems that are reliant on the free market have failed catastrophically, every time.

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I’m quite confident your definition of failure and mine are almost wholly divergent.

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I’m quite confident your definition of failure and mine are almost wholly divergent.

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It doesn't matter what YOUR definition of failure is.

Healthcare systems that rely on the free market have always failed catastrophically if your definition of failure is as follows

Definition of failure
1a: omission of occurrence or performance
specifically : a failing to perform a duty or expected action
failure to pay the rent on time
b(1): a state of inability to perform a normal function
kidney failure
— compare HEART FAILURE
(2): an abrupt cessation of normal functioning
a power failure
c: a fracturing or giving way under stress
structural failure
2a: lack of success
b: a failing in business : BANKRUPTCY
He was trying to rescue the company from failure.
3a: a falling short : DEFICIENCY
a crop failure
b: DETERIORATION, DECAY
4: one that has failed
He felt like a failure when he wasn't accepted into law school.

There’s bo conspiracy theory involved in my assertion. You’re almost retarded.

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You have your anecdotal experience, but there are many examples of the opposite.

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I had the opportunity to do clinical rotations in the UK and the Netherlands during medical school. I also did rotations at and moonlighted at the VA hospitals in Clarksburg WV and Pittsburgh Pa during residency. Private hospitals and private insurance are far from perfect, but they are a 100 times better than government run hospitals and insurance based on what I have seen first hand.

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Any country where this is the case, isn't one where you'd want to live.

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Figures the resident prog would be against consensual transactions.

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Any country where this is the case, isn't one where you'd want to live.


Figures the resident prog would be against consensual transactions.

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Perhaps depending on definition of "free-market" he could make the argument. Factually, few men or women chose medicine as a career for sole "market" reasons. So in practice, inherent field altruism would always render hazards of free-market moot.

You can selectively quote me all you’d like. My statements are 100% true. The fact you can’t even quote the whole sentence is further evidence of their axiomatic qualities.

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LSUconvert

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You've posted nearly a dozen times in this thread and contributed nothing but a vague warning about how free-market healthcare systems always fail.

The only thing you've said that even approaches an argument is your bit of "here's the dictionary definition of the word failure therefore everyone must have the same end goals in mind so there can be no disagreement if a thing fails or not."

Let the progs who have mastered yalls marching orders better chime in. You're an embarrassment.