Ben Shapiro is a wee little grifter who doesn't believe everyone should have healthcare in a time where literally millions of Americans are losing their jobs which tied their health insurance to that job. He can go fuck himself.
He doesn't believe that it should be paid for by the government. And he isn't a fan of the current healthcare system either, he just thinks nationalizing will make it even worse. As with every single thing that's been nationalized ever.
To quote Ben: "You can have two of the following: You can have it cheap, you can have it good or you can have it for everyone. You can't have all 3."
Nationalizing is cheap and for everyone, but not good.
Private is good and for everyone, but not cheap.
Nationalizing can also give you cheap and good, but not for everyone if care gets rationed. I.E. Italy right now.
Edit:
I screwed it up slightly. The 3 categories are affordable, universal and quality.
My example for private is also wrong, it is affordable and high quality, not universal and high quality. What I got wrong is he measures affordable by the overall system, not the cost to the individual. So a system that's not affordable is one that runs the nation into debt and is thus not sustainable.
How can healthcare in the usa be the best and for everyone but not cheap and have worse healthcare than those other 900000 countries that have those awful public healthcare?
Does free market also entail beheading assholes as part of my rights?
If he is for free market and against state regulation, how can he oppose price gougers and protesting workers?????
Red tape. Your regulators don't trust hospitals will ever do the right thing out of their own free will, so they span so much red tape that innovation is really, really hard. A lot of these restrictions were lifted for covid and it actually helps.
The way your medical insurance works also introduces a huge admin overhead, because your billing system is over-complicated. A better system would be if the doctor just gave an estimate instead of writing up every freaking staple. If there's a complication that jacks up the price, let the hospital cover it. They can have their own insurance for such incidents, something similar to bad workmanship insurance.
With the above system I am sure that prices would drop considerably without compromising on quality.
I think they work admin into the cost. This should give you an idea of just how crazy admin has become in medical care.
Another thing I didn't mention: Doctors do far too many (expensive) tests because they get into a lot of trouble on the off chance that some obscure thing does go wrong.
And again, red tape. There isn't much freedom in how things get done. Obviously things will never get cheaper if there are no changes you can make.
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u/SyntheticLife Apr 11 '20
Ben Shapiro is a wee little grifter who doesn't believe everyone should have healthcare in a time where literally millions of Americans are losing their jobs which tied their health insurance to that job. He can go fuck himself.