…when Democrats said “death panels” were a GOP conspiracy theory and scare tactic? [1]
I’d like some of those “progressives” to explain what Michael Bloomberg is describing here:
I’ll wait.
[1[ It’s come to my attention that Twitter links frequently disappear from some browser. Technicians are working on it. And by “working on it”, I mean “Jeez all friday, WordPress, did you ever screw the pooch with this last bunch of patches”.
Bloomberg endorses death panels, Buttigieg endorses infanticide, Sanders tolerates (tacitly endorses) his supporters urging violence against his Democratic rivals, all the Senators were involved in high tech lynchings of Brett Kavanaugh and President Trump…..sorry, folks, I seem to be detecting a pattern here.
Oy Vey!
There’s Mini Mike, wearing his little hat, explaining the full lifeboat theory to a pod of Jewish cetaceans lounging in the coronary ward at Hebrew Hospital, and they’re all schmiling and nodding. Here’s our guy…
lmfao
I also recall the grandstanding, low rent dog Democrat from Florida Alan Grayson, that actually made a full story board presentation to show off in congress, stating that “the REPUBLICAN health care plan, was to let you die”. Funny though! He only served one term because his ex-wife accused him of abuse over a twenty year period. Then, when a left wing media reporter asked him questions about the allegations, Grayson angrily threatened that reporter with an elitist rant that “he was assaulting a member of the senate” and “I hope someone arrests you.” The Dems also came up with a classless commercial that depicted Paul Ryan pushing an old lady in a wheel chair off of a cliff.
Shame Paul Ryan wasn’t able to figure out who his real political enemies are after that ad ran.
The demand for health care exceeds the supply of health care. This makes health care what economists call a “scarce good.” This is in contrast to a non-scarce good. The air that you breathe (under nearly all circumstances) is not a scarce good. You can breathe as much air as you want, and it does not stop anyone else from breathing as much air as they want to breathe.
The classical definition of economics is that it is the study of the rationing of scarce goods. In a purely free market economy, scarce goods are rationed by consumers using price. This works pretty well for commodities like copper and food staples. The market rewards producers for supplying commodities at the lowest price.
But health care is different. Everyones’ healthcare needs are different, and require individual attention by a highly trained specialist, especially as the need for healthcare becomes acute.
There is no easy solution for this problem, and believe me, the people who pay for healthcare (individuals, insurance companies, or the political state) have spent countless hours of labor and billions or trillions dollars trying to make healthcare cheap. One of the difficult issues is that people with very little economic value often need the most expensive care.
Nobody, so far, has been able to fix this problem, if you can call it a problem. All that making a health care a public expense does is move the problem into the political arena. You want to pay for sex changes at $50k plus per patient? Fine. But you are giving up, say, five hundred $100 dollar vaccination treatments that may keep poor kids in the third world alive.