Dennis Pratt on the health care system

The really impressive feat of the government-controlled marketplace is to convince you that the inflated prices you see, which are due entirely to government hinderance of the free market, is actually a function of the free market itself, and that only more government could ever reduce prices.

Government cannot reduce price. The way laws and regulations are written inevitably favor some companies and disfavor others. Politicians are too wedded to their cronies, who keep them in power. To pay back their crony, the amount of money taken from you and then given to the crony must rise.

The biggest scam they will do, though, is to hide the ever-increasing prices from you. They’ll hide it by paying it through taxes — which are taken from you. And even the “taxes on the corporations” are taken from you via higher prices on products, lower quality products, fewer jobs, lower wages, etc. And the politicians will borrow money to pay their cronies, so your kids will get the bill. And they’ll inflate your money to pay, so that the value of your money disappears even as it sits in your wallet. And the inevitable government-induced shortages will be handled by waits and you’ll move up because others will die.

But they’ll have their government teachers “teach” your children in their government schools that their government healthcare is free and abundant and customer oriented and innovative and of the highest quality. And how lucky you are to have your rulers looking out for your health needs.

Not like that free market health care, which only cares about making money!

~ Dennis Pratt, Quora answer, September 5, 2019