(02-04-2019, 12:46 PM)jj82284 Wrote:

(02-04-2019, 10:33 AM)wrong_box Wrote: Agree that health care shouldnt be tied to employer. That began as a benefit to attract workers,now it's a mandate. Also disagree with most of your last paragraph other than tax deductible. The biggest problem to make health care work in the free market but it never work the way it is. Eleventy six years ago I did a report on health care companies and found that there is five or six companies that .own the majority of health care providers with the same BOD from each of the big five or six sitting on the BOD of all of them.  So the majority stock holders of the companies owning the majority of health care companies are/we're the same people then and probably still are. The free market can't work that way

No, the market is inherently more efficient than government run monopoly period. Full stop.  What u just described is scarcity.  The antidote to scarcity is more innovation and capital to meet co Sumer needs, not reducing providers even further.

Scarcity is not the right word.
what wrong_box described is a lack of competition.
If a lack of competition is diagnosed, the government should study what the barriers of entry are. if the barriers to entry are high, the government should begin legal procedures to break up the big players.
Of course many of our libertarian friends have a problem with the government doing this.

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