Healthcare, the Free Market, & the U.S.

More on Healthcare and the Free Market's role as the leader of innovation.

National Health Expenditure Data:
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/25_NHE_Fact_Sheet.asp#TopOfPage

Nation Science Foundation:
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/

EFPIA:
http://www.efpia.org/Content/Default.asp

Nobel Prize Database (Medicine & Physiology):
http://almaz.com/nobel/medicine/medicine.html

Note: I support programs such as the FDA to make sure health products are safe. These programs are not controlling the market, just making sure products are safe.

As comparison:
US Population: 307million
EU population: 499million

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[ideologger]

To paraphrase: "I agree with the libertarians, except we should have more more social services. Oh, and the FDA and similar entities are good." In other words, you agree with the Dems or GOP, with the possible exception of government spending. Not sure if you cream over Ayn Rand, or if you just don't know what "libertarian" means.

[buybuydandavis]

Since you started the video with a quote with Thomas Jefferson, let me point out that he was clear on "where you draw the line" with government - "to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men".

If you don't think you have a right to compel a health care provider to provide you with health care, or compel your neighbor to submit certain medical procedures, or compel him *not* to avail himself of other medical procedures, then you will believe in a free market in health care.

[spunkets]

@plopnod

That's funny, so am I.

We've got something in common. Lets work from there.

[plopnod]

@spunkets more obnoxious and pretentious really

[spunkets]

@plopnod

Plus, all this misery/love stuff is amusing.

And if the rest of you thought the way I do (which you would never), your world would be so much more...like watching raccoons doing handstands on motorbikes.

[spunkets]

@plopnod

Clearly, you're having problems with YOURSELF(ves). I'm sure that's hard. Sorry.

I, on the other hand, am God (hold the applause), and every thing I ever have to do has to always be PERFECT, everyday. Why?

B/c I consider myself responsible for the whole fucking world, the way it is, the way it will be. This world I have created (as a human being, like a story) through the simple act of being here, accidentally, w/ a (relative, fraudulent) unique point of reference.

[plopnod]

@spunkets I think you know how to find it Angerboy

[spunkets]

This made me way dumber.

Where's that, "Tiger Eating Monkey" video?

[hartforest]

@MisterBusta We don't have a free-market system for health-care. It is one of the most regulated areas of the economy that exists. For a great article on this subject look up Kel Kelly's "The Myth of Free-Market Healthcare."

[leegeorgeson]

Republicans: Don't get sick.

If you do get sick get better.

If you can't get better. Die quickly.