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The U.S. healthcare system is frequently, in spite of the fact that it's hampered by a myriad of distorting governmental impositions, argued to be the pinnacle of a free market in healthcare, and thus pointed to as a cautionary tale regarding what will supposedly happen if healthcare is left to "avaricious profit-driven market forces".
In this subreddit, we debunk the myth that the U.S. healthcare system is a free market one, and underline the superiority of free market care over Statist ones.
Popular Topics in r/USHealthcareMyths
#1
❗ Remark from a mandatory insurance advocate
: "I am honestly baffled by the extent to which mandatory insurance advocates are ignorant over basic economics. Seemingly NO ONE among them know how insurance works. Cancer IS in fact something one can insure oneself against since it's an unpredictable risk."
30 posts
#2
Confusion regarding the nature of a free market in healthcare
: "Some mandatory insurance advocates argue that markets will naturally degenerate into cronyism because "the market" naturally gravitates towards that. Actually, market participants have VESTED interests in ensuring that their competitors don't receive State-granted privileges to wield against them."
18 posts
#3
Mandatory insurance is also subject to market forces
: "What people forget when they say "Healthcare is a human right!""
13 posts
#4
In a functional justice system,defrauding insureds is PUNISHABLE
: "To many, the insurance business model of "You pay us a fee regularly. When X happens, we give you $Y" can't work because State justice systems will not enforce the contracts. This begs the question: why the HELL then give that very same incompetent institution the duty to centrally plan healthcare?"
10 posts
#5
Instances of mandatory insurance failing
: "WTF. IT'S REAL! https://www.vice.com/en/article/canada-will-legalize-medically-assisted-dying-for-people-addicted-to-drugs/"
8 posts
#6
How a free market in healthcare actually works
: "A crucial remark regarding the "If you don't want mandatory insurance, you think that poor people DESERVE to DIE!"-slander."
8 posts
#7
'In emergencies, private healthcare providers can extort you!'
: "Central to the mandatory insurance line of reasoning is a vague impression that the State can reliably seize whatever amount of resources are necessary to provide healthcare generously à la "Tax The Rich™". This line of reasoning forgets the opportunity costs arising from such capricious plundering."
7 posts
#8
Pitches for freedom of choice, against mandatory insurance
: "The fact that the advocates for mandatory insurance ("universal healthcare") have to use blatant deception and euphemisms should be indicative of their agenda's malintent."Public"/"univeral"/"free" healthcare are all mere euphemisms for "mandatory insurance for State-subsidized bureaucrat-run firms""
7 posts
#9
'If universal healthcare is so bad, why do so many have it?'
: "Why Europeans don't actively seek to dismantle the undesirable compulsory healthcare insurance regimes might be because the US system unjustifiably tarnishes the reputation of market-based healthcare provision, which causes European voters to reflexively support their public ones out of desperation"
7 posts
#10
Best evidence that the US healthcare system is cronyist
: "This image perfectly conveys why it's outright lying to argue that the US system is a "free market" one. Just because it has "private" providers doesn't mean that the legal framework it operates in is in accordance to free market principles. Once the cronyism is one, high quality care will ensue."
6 posts
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