Free market in healthcare kills Americans, and this is no hyperbole

[egbertowillies]

Republicans and corporate Democrats lie to us about getting better and lower cost healthcare under the free market. This is false and all evidence, reality show otherwise.

Do not buy into the hype. America's healthcare is currently a free market healthcare with mostly tepid government regulations. As Ali Velshi pointed out several times on MSNBC, no industrialized country in the world practices what we practice, market-based healthcare. And the reason is simple. Corporations have the fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits, not to heal the sick. If healing is the by-product that is a good thing. But make no mistake. Shareholders invest where they can make money passively.

https://egbertowillies.com/2017/04/02/free-market-healthcare-kills/

[Hoyt]

1. While I think most of us would gravitate to a Public Option, I'm not sure the VA or

Indian Health Service, or even Medicaid in many states, supports the idea that a government health care program is necessarily better quality than through our current system. Would you want a health care program administered and funded by GOPers?

Heck even 30% of Medicare beneficiaries choose a Medicare Advantage plan run by private insurers under government guidelines. Medicare Supplemental policies and drug coverage are, you guessed it, private companies.

Would we be better without them, yes if we can ensure that GOPers never gain office again to cut funding, slant the rules to hurt the poor and sick, etc. Until then, I'm not sure we'd be better off with only government insurance. I do think we'd be better off letting people opt into a government program. I believe eventually, most of us would select the government program.

Also, while I agree most corporations seem to be profit maximizers, the law actually does not require that. It's a misconception --

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-corporations-obligations-to-shareholders/corporations-dont-have-to-maximize-profits