The U.S health-care system is terribly inefficient! It needs a single-payer socialized system like Canada doesn it?
The U.S health-care system is inefficient and has problems, but not for the reason socialists claim. The problem is not too much capitalism, but too little! The U.S health-care system is far from being a genuine free market, but is a mixture of government and private activity. 45% of the money is government directed, and the government runs Medicare and Medicaid. The main problem with the U.S system is that many people’s health insurance is provided through their employers, because the government allows businesses tax exemptions for this. This indirect method of health insurance creates the excessive bureaucratisation and inefficiency seen. Critics leap on this failure of socialism as a justification for even more socialism! Their proposed solution – the single-payer system – would have the government run health-care and screw it up even more. (See the previous entry for an explanation of what is wrong with socialized health-care) Question: Surely we need to take a ‘balanced view’ of m
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