Healthcare (or any other goodie) either has to be paid for by the consumer, or rationed by a collective mechanism: call it "insurers" or "Gosplan." No sane person wants fee-for-service, perhaps outside of cosmetic plastic surgery. (Republicans aren't sane.). So rationing it is. And rationing always involves fudges and edge-cases and borders, or at least long queues. So what is the least terrible way to ration things?
Here’s my review of their book: https://gooznews.substack.com/p/medicare-for-all-lite
Thanks. I was going to loop you in on this. I want to delay reading your review until I'm finished myself.
Healthcare (or any other goodie) either has to be paid for by the consumer, or rationed by a collective mechanism: call it "insurers" or "Gosplan." No sane person wants fee-for-service, perhaps outside of cosmetic plastic surgery. (Republicans aren't sane.). So rationing it is. And rationing always involves fudges and edge-cases and borders, or at least long queues. So what is the least terrible way to ration things?