@AOC If you left health care to personal responsibility and a free market - your health care successes would increase dramatically - at no cost to the taxpayer.
@RobertMSterling All that wealth was created and it is not in a truck, a mattress or even a bank. It is out in the economy. You can borrow some of it to start your own business and make your own fortune. The you can use it however you want -
@JasonKander Money at work like Elon’s wealth does more to make the world a better place than any “organization”. What f-ing organization can you imagine that does more. The government? Kind of laughable.
Just once it would be nice to hear something sensible like “Pritzker to devise incentives for Illinois power generation”. (We’re from the government and we’re here to help!)
@NYCMayor@PIX11News Sounds great to me. This is exactly what a city’s executive should be doing. Will be interesting to see if he gets any traction or success in a bureaucracy that is incentivized to waste money.
@jeffjank33@SullyCNBC Hip replacement is a bad example. In fact hip replacements are never urgent. And hip surgery HAS been commoditized. It takes only about 30 minutes and the knowledge is widespread and easily available. An example of market forces working successfully.
Truly - there should be protests in the streets to de-regulate healthcare. Government intervention in this area is responsible for untold expense and suffering.
The real problem is government involvement distorts the market for healthcare services driving up costs for everyone. When government pays the bill, prices get inflated. Same situation with the skyrocketing cost of higher education. Get government out of healthcare, allow providers to compete, and drive down prices.
@ChicagosMayor First - why is the federal government paying for local issues? Second - you realize the numbers? 21/1260 =0.0167 or roughly 1.7%. Please cut 1.2 billion to spend 20 million. Wish we could make those trade offs all the time.
@SoveyX The left has “degrees” and they have built a strawman that academic degrees = real world competence. But real world competence is a different skill entirely and many of them would fail that test.
@davidharsanyi This is exactly right. I think I am going to stand on the street and block ambulances with a protest sign that says “Free markets in health care or people will die”. Who’s with me?!