Letting your own people die needlessly (heart disease is still a number-one killer and it's pretty simple and cost effective to treat, especially when people can afford to go to the doctor early into the issue), the new hardcore budget cutting method! Sounds an awful lot like those got' dang death panels all the same people passing this type of legislation were all fired up about, and that was for Grandma! She's even more used up and worthless as a worker.
While we're at it, let's ask the third world how that strategy has worked out for their workforce and general economic health.
P.s. for those who can't on their own: Sarcasm. MASSIVE SARCASM. Go ahead and take it seriously now.
I honestly don't understand how someone could maintain this "I AM AN ISLAND" mentality and still have even a pretense to economic literacy.
P.s. Pure Libertarian-ism is a lot like Communism... much better on paper.
Ideally, in a non-regulated market, the cost of health services would go down. Realistically, Mr. Trained Doctor who is making six figures wants to continue making six figures, and healthcare remains a bastion of the rich. New players can enter the market much more freely, but as a result they're just-as-if-not-more likely to be Bill with a Hacksaw than an actual, trained Doctor. Gradual change to more accessible and affordable training MIGHT happen over decades, but the nation would have to survive the transition that long and even then it's rather unlikely.
Of course there is.
I just honestly don't care if ghettos get walled off and turned into Escape-From-New-York style prisons.
And as I said, I'm a fan of education being publicly funded. That's the real key to avoiding poverty. Everyone can avoid poverty if they're educated properly. What stops people from saving money? They go out and buy smartphones and go out to eat and buy all kinds of stuff they don't need. When adversity comes, they're never ready because they never think it'll come.
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Glad you mentioned it. If you decriminalized practicing medicine without ta license, you'd have clinics spring up where people with rudimentary medical knowledge could serve many medical needs without the need for a $100 Dr visit. It might cost a fraction of that.
I hate living in this piece of shit state.
Signature Nazi's suck.
I'm going to go ahead and sig that so I can do you the favor of saving you from having to ever post in a thread about poverty or welfare again.
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Because people who are poor as shit have neighbors and family and friends who are poor as shit?
Which you fix by educating them.
How often do you meet educated men who are poor as shit?
PS - I like the new sig. Ever been to a ghetto? They probably SHOULD be walled off.
---------- Post added 2012-12-08 at 07:54 AM ----------
Well that would be an incentive for bad practitioners to refer patients up the chain when a condition is beyond their expertise.
You'll also, as I expressly mentioned, get idiots who do more harm than good - a problem we already have now with licencing would become even more of a massive issue.
A medical professional is one of only a few service providers who can end or seriously maim someone's life so handily. There's no "just don't continue to patronize them" for that.
Education is worthy of regulation (including of teachers, I presume) but not medicine? Really? I could understand making a case for making med school less necessary for basic family practice, but not total deregulation, not within a real-world, first-world country framework.
Every time I go to an art major's reunion! I kid, I kid.
But education is not an immediate solution. It is one that is difficult to implement, costs a large amount of resources and manpower, and is a long term solution to poverty. Adopting education as the only economic policy towards fighting poverty is pretty facetious.