People Online Listed 30 Things Americans Are Familiar With, But Europeans Can’t Relate To

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OK, genius, give me a couple examples of regulations in healthcare that you'd remove that would save consumers money. Do you want to remove regulations that surgeons must sanitize instruments before surgery? Do you want to remove regulations that insist that providers document every procedure that they carry out? Do you want to remove regulations that ensure that providers are trained, licenced, and insured? Tell, me, since you know so much about the healtcare industry which regulations would you remove that would have no negative impact on the health and safety of patients? Or are you willing to let some people die if it means lower costs?

Here's an important question I want to ask you: how do you plan to solve ridiculous healthcare prices? More taxes? I have multiple problems with that, and one of them is that its just covering up a symptom, not curing the disease itself.

"Here's an important question I want to ask you: how do you plan to solve ridiculous healthcare prices? More taxes? I have multiple problems with that, and one of them is that its just covering up a symptom, not curing the disease itself." - More taxes? That's your knee-jerk response. Nobody said that. You're not really educated are you?

So what do you propose? I'm waiting.

"So what do you propose? I'm waiting." - Unlike 'libertarians', I don't claim to have the answer to everything. I don't claim to have extensive knowledge of how the healthcare industry works. Essentially, I am not on the left side of the Dunning-Kruger graph, like your ilk. But, it appears that the Scanadanavian countries and much of Western Europe have a better grasp on things as healthcare costs ir a significantly smaller portion of their GDP than that of the USA. So, maybe we take a look at what they're doing.

You said you don't want higher taxes, then you said you wanted scandinavia's system, which includes higher taxes. Make up your mind. Okay, you said you want Scandinavia. There are many reasons why I believe that can't be imitated in the US. 1: US government ≠ Nordic Governments. We suffer from diseconomies of scale on a level that they do not. It is impossible to imitate in the US what they have done. 2: Scandinavian Culture. It is a well-known fact that Scandinavians prosper more than Americans. What many ignore, however, is the fact that Scandinavians prosper in America, not just Scandinavia, giving evidence that the Nordic Prosperity is not caused by its extensive welfare, but by its culture. 3: America has a higher GDP per capita (63k USD) compared to Sweden (51k).

"Do you want to..." I want deregulation, but that doesn't mean I want no regulations. Some basic regulations are required. "which regulations would you remove" Because of regulations, it costs 1 billion and 12 years for a drug to be brought on the market, a time which could be saving lives. Because of the cost, only big companies can afford to make new drugs, and they would only make drugs with big profits, not one which benefit the poor. The AMA limits the number of people who can train to become doctors every year. We have certificate of need laws which restrict the supply of hospitals, medical clinics, and the medical equipment they can purchase. External fixators are almost banned from being produced independently. Duke University’s Christopher Conover said government regulation costs the healthcare industry at least 330 billion. And, of course, we have the government, the most wasteful entity on earth. I could write another paragraph about that. And, of course, if government has any power over the economy, corporations take over that power, with cronyism.

"The AMA limits the number of people who can train to become doctors every year." - You're full of sh!t. I looked it up and found no such regulation. You can't be taken seriously in anything you post.

Hiring private doctors used to be common practice. Now it's not. How? AMA lobbying enabled by an interventionist government having control over the economy. And besides, what about all my other examples of government regulation costing money?

"And besides, what about all my other examples of government regulation costing money?" - They were completely lame because you made claims but you didn't specify exactly what regulations that you'd remove. For example, you said, "Because of regulations, it costs 1 billion and 12 years for a drug to be brought on the market". OK, smart guy, which regulations would you remove to change that? Would you not require extensive testing and research? All you bring up are ubiquitous numbers and claims, but you can't name a singe regulation that you'd drop, let alone a single regulation that you'd drop to save significant money. But then again, it's hard to take an ideology seriously that has the same solution to every problem.

"Would you not require extensive testing and research?" I still want testing and research. I want LESS testing and research. "a single regulation that you'd drop to save significant money." I'd ease the ridiculous testing that needs to be passed, as those tests are preventing competition and keeping prices high. Minimal testing for safety is needed, but the rest is unnecessary. I'd also drop all those Certificate of Need requirements. Those also prevent competition. I reiterate: some regulations for safety are necessary. Others, which indirectly inhibit competition, are not. Drop those.

As for your assumption that I'm a generic progressive, I don't even know what that means. Kinda sounds like you're calling me a basic B. But, while I'm progressive, I'm rather pragmatic when it comes to solutions to problems, and I think that most progressives are. Like many libertarians, you appear to conflate progressivism with communism. I don't know a single progressive who is remotely totalitarian.

"Like many libertarians, you appear to conflate progressivism with communism. " When have I ever done such a thing?

It's a mistaken use adopted first by the U.S. army. That doesn't change, that it isn't a medical symbol in the original context.