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Go on a vacation then, much better money spent that on a car :P

Nice to see analysis like this hit the mainstream :tup:

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/06/its_shameless_financial_strip_mining_les_leopold_explains_how_the_1_percent_killed_the_middle_class/

It's a potential basic human need in the case of injury or illness.

No you're not. Well, let me put it this way: Healthcare to me isn't necessarily a human right on the same level as say freedom of expression or personal liberty, but it is an essential human need. And any economic system should in its essence be geared to serve the needs of its people. Now I...

Well it is a social, "soft" science. Just like sociology, geography (when not talking about geology and such),...

How is private enterprise the most important one? State sponsored research has led to countless medical breakthroughs and is still hugely important in fundamental research (hope that's the proper English term). And economics is a science, but not as far from a hard science as it can get. To...

Yeah, I didn't imply that. Just pointing out that there are a lot more important factors contributing to the fact that our medical expertise is the best it's ever been than a private pharmacuetical industry. And you haven't answered my question.

How so when it's been proven to work in dozens of other countries, even significantly poorer ones than the US?

So you're saying it doesn't matter if sizeable portions of the population aren't insured (like with the US)? But how is it not as a society & economy desireable to have as many people as possible insured if said society is clearly affluent enough to provide for it? Well, you were presenting the...

Not outdated as much as it's always been very flawed.

Yes If only the pharmaceutical industry wasn't held back by those damned state regulations in the 14th century, I'm sure they'd have cured the plague otherwise. - - - Updated - - - The issue of patients not being paid is in any case secondary to the fact that no private healthcare scheme can...

What an argument.

For schools, it's obvious really. I mean education is the cornerstone of every person's career, if you make it private and completely dependable on how much money your parents make, that's not only completely unfair by just about any ethical standard imagineable, but also simply dumb from an...