Difference between revisions of "Socialized medicine"
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:Health care has to be rationed either by the market or by political and bureaucratic processes. The latter are no more just than the former. We often forget that people who have difficulty making money in the market are not necessarily better at jumping queues in a socialized system.[http://www.theadvocates.org/freeman/8903lemi.html] | :Health care has to be rationed either by the market or by political and bureaucratic processes. The latter are no more just than the former. We often forget that people who have difficulty making money in the market are not necessarily better at jumping queues in a socialized system.[http://www.theadvocates.org/freeman/8903lemi.html] | ||
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| + | ==Loss of personal incentive to find better service or products== | ||
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| + | ==Lack of competion in health care== | ||
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| + | ==Loss of incentives to create new drugs/treatments== | ||
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| + | ==Loss of personal income to the government== | ||
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| + | ==Loss of health care quality== | ||
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| + | ==Loss of privacy== | ||
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| + | ==Loss of liberty== | ||
[[Category:Medicine]] | [[Category:Medicine]] | ||
[[Category:Socialism]] | [[Category:Socialism]] | ||
Revision as of 04:30, March 9, 2009
Socialized medicine is health care as supplied by a monopolistic or heavily-subsidized and regulated universal health care system.
Pierre Lemieux wrote:
- Health care has to be rationed either by the market or by political and bureaucratic processes. The latter are no more just than the former. We often forget that people who have difficulty making money in the market are not necessarily better at jumping queues in a socialized system.[1]