the-pi-guy said:
Politics is a process. Absolutely nothing works perpetually, always have to make something work. The article that you provided was talking about medicare. It's semi-related to the discussion. |
Sure it talked about medicare but we werent interested in that part. But i will address it. Why does the government pay more for healthcare than people put in? Because the healthcare costs have disproprtionately been affected by inflation more than other services and goods. Even then, the government shortchanges doctors and many doctors reduce times of service or even outright deny service to people whose only insurance is medicare or medicaid. Some states have tried to fix this by allowing the medicare recepients to choose among private companies who gove the government a discounted bulk rate and then pay doctors the correct rate, but then this is government choosing favorites and corporate welfare, another problem.
As for the political process ever changing, yes, but not fast enough. Democratic elections are slow and inefficient when compared with voluntary transactions in a market for sending signals. Additionally they dont represent the values of the people involved proportionally. The arguement for markets vs government is that they better represent the individual preferences of each an every individual with correct propotional weights depending on the importance of the issue to the individuals. If i am unsafisfied with government i can only try to elect people who dont exist in a rigged system. If i am unsatisfied with a private company, or individual, I can choose to severe ties with them.
