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> ostensibly "free market" healthcare system

Some guy said of sick care in America: The American health care system is socialism without a central plan, and capitalism without markets or prices.

You really have to pick one or the other of socialism or the free market. Our current system is the worst of both worlds.



You really have to pick one or the other of socialism or the free market. Our current system is the worst of both worlds.

That is the essence of contemporary corporatism. It has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism, because it's neither system. The problem is one of social topology, from which money disparities follow, but it's otherwise not really about money per se. Modern corporatism works like this: a well-connected, parasitic elite (~0.5%) gets the best of both systems: the chance of personal enrichment and the freedom of capitalism, and the safety net (up to outright governmental favoritism, as seen in corporate welfare) and low minimal expectations of socialism. The other 99.5% get the worst of both systems.




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