Comments on: Socialized Medicine Is the Problem http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/socialized-medicine-is-the-problem/ Ideas on Liberty Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:40:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Dan Ferris http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/socialized-medicine-is-the-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-14004 Dan Ferris Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:25:59 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/socialized-medicine-is-the-problem/#comment-14004 I find it hard to believe this topic is even controversial anymore. Free markets make things abundant and cheap, period. In a free, or even partially free market (like the US), the poor make themselves poor through their attitudes toward work, money and telling the truth. In Canada, everyone is health care poor, because it\'s socialized. Who doesn\'t get this? I can barely believe that, in the year 2009, anyone is able to defend socialist practices with a straight face. Don\'t they know what happened to Russia? ~Dan Ferris, www.ferriscapital.com I find it hard to believe this topic is even controversial anymore. Free markets make things abundant and cheap, period. In a free, or even partially free market (like the US), the poor make themselves poor through their attitudes toward work, money and telling the truth. In Canada, everyone is health care poor, because it\’s socialized.

Who doesn\’t get this? I can barely believe that, in the year 2009, anyone is able to defend socialist practices with a straight face.

Don\’t they know what happened to Russia?

~Dan Ferris, http://www.ferriscapital.com

]]> By: jjhern http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/socialized-medicine-is-the-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-13895 jjhern Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:11:35 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/socialized-medicine-is-the-problem/#comment-13895 Dr. Steve: YOU're Right ON!! Paul, wake up! Government can't spend what it doesn't have. What you're saying is take more money from the hard working individuals, Nonsense! Dr. Steve: YOU’re Right ON!! Paul, wake up! Government can’t spend what it doesn’t have. What you’re saying is take more money from the hard working individuals, Nonsense!

]]> By: Steve http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/socialized-medicine-is-the-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-13885 Steve Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:40:45 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/socialized-medicine-is-the-problem/#comment-13885 Paul, it is morally reprehensible that you feel entitled to my services as a physician. I'm good at what I do, and if you want my services you and I should be able to come to an agreement as to the value of same. If not , what gives you a right to expect a piece of my time and knowledge? Dr. Steve Paul, it is morally reprehensible that you feel entitled to my services as a physician. I’m good at what I do, and if you want my services you and I should be able to come to an agreement as to the value of same. If not , what gives you a right to expect a piece of my time and knowledge?
Dr. Steve

]]> By: Darren http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/socialized-medicine-is-the-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-13882 Darren Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:29:58 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/socialized-medicine-is-the-problem/#comment-13882 Paul, Dr. Block makes the point that people are being denied care under Canada\'s socialized system. A free market in health care would better supply everyone, including the impecunious (to use Block\'s favorite word). The problem is the lack of competition keeping prices high. A free market would solve the problem fast. Then the poor wouldn\'t have the affordability problem you mention. For example, a liberal (in the modern sense, that is) once said to me that we can\'t treat health care like sweaters & allow a free market in it. Way too important a matter, she said. To which I replied that there\'s no sweater crisis & that we would be better off if we did treat health care like sweaters. Sweaters, after all, are cheap & plentiful. Put that in your tuque & think about it! LOL Paul,

Dr. Block makes the point that people are being denied care under Canada\’s socialized system. A free market in health care would better supply everyone, including the impecunious (to use Block\’s favorite word).

The problem is the lack of competition keeping prices high. A free market would solve the problem fast. Then the poor wouldn\’t have the affordability problem you mention.

For example, a liberal (in the modern sense, that is) once said to me that we can\’t treat health care like sweaters & allow a free market in it. Way too important a matter, she said. To which I replied that there\’s no sweater crisis & that we would be better off if we did treat health care like sweaters. Sweaters, after all, are cheap & plentiful.

Put that in your tuque & think about it! LOL

]]> By: paul http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/socialized-medicine-is-the-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-13853 paul Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:06:28 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/socialized-medicine-is-the-problem/#comment-13853 Correction: "Your observations...<b>are</b> spot on. Correction: “Your observations…are spot on.

]]> By: paul http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/socialized-medicine-is-the-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-13852 paul Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:05:34 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/socialized-medicine-is-the-problem/#comment-13852 Your observations that demand exceeds supply and that the price of healthcare is pegged too low is spot on. However, from there, your conclusions seem a little faulty. First, given that supply/demand inequity, the solution we seek should be to increase supply without decreasing demand. It is morally reprehensible to encourage a system in which any person should feel it necessary to refuse medical attention because of economic pressures. For this reason, socialization is necessary. So: how do we increase supply without decreasing demand? <b>Increase the amount per capita that the government spends on healthcare.</b> And finally, re: "the point of being rich." As a rich person, one should be entitled to an increased quality of life via more LUXURIES. It is inhumane to allow being rich to increase your chances of survival. Your observations that demand exceeds supply and that the price of healthcare is pegged too low is spot on. However, from there, your conclusions seem a little faulty. First, given that supply/demand inequity, the solution we seek should be to increase supply without decreasing demand. It is morally reprehensible to encourage a system in which any person should feel it necessary to refuse medical attention because of economic pressures. For this reason, socialization is necessary.

So: how do we increase supply without decreasing demand? Increase the amount per capita that the government spends on healthcare.

And finally, re: “the point of being rich.” As a rich person, one should be entitled to an increased quality of life via more LUXURIES. It is inhumane to allow being rich to increase your chances of survival.

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