I think taxation is theft, committed by a violent entity ( I know you disagree here).
Which is why I prefer the market as a replacement to that, as the market is a matrix of mutually consented upon trades.
If the state didn't have monopoly on healthcare, licensing, and other regulations surrounding it, health insurance would act as any other service. Which is why I compared health and auto insurance earlier, but apparently my point that using the state's violence to enforce positive rights was missed.
In a free market there would also be charities to support the poor. The reason there is less charity now is because half our income is taken by the state.
I don't think people should die, I just don't think an institution of violence should pay for it through stealing.
"The Daemon lied with every breath. It could not help itself but to deceive and dismay, to riddle and ruin. The more we conversed, the closer I drew to one singularly ineluctable fact: I would gain no wisdom here."
We shouldn't ask pay for the poor, just some charitable people who like to, but we're stuck with a for profit model because the "best and brightest" only want to profit? So why would they be charitable? The entire position sounds incredibly selfish, tbh.
For profit has become a dirty word.
However profit = value provided to consumers.
A doctor provides a service, just like: a lawyer, an engineer, a mechanic etc.
You want all service and goods providers to be following a profit motive, the only alternative is bureaucracy, which is wickedly inefficient, which could mean deadly in the health industry.
Not sure why that sounds selfish.
As far as charity goes I'm using that as a blanket term for standard mutually consented upon wealth exchange and volunteer stuff like soup kitchens, but also NGOs that would seek to help the poor.
You'd be crazy if you think people with medical training, whether licensed by the state or not, wouldn't want to help the poor.
Not to mention, without the state you wouldn't have things like food protectionism i.e. corn syrup, or propaganda like the american classic breakfast of bacon and eggs, etc.
All of these distortions contributing to the obesity epidemic in america, which puts an enormous strain on the healthcare system.
Put another way, the existence of the state incentivizes bad behavior, including obesity, then steals via taxation to redistribute wealth from people who make healthy choices to people who don't.
The real issue with health care is not affordability, it is access. The pandemic demonstrated this perfectly. Even if we had free or affordable health care, we do not have enough health care workers or facilities to scale for every American resident. The right to free or affordable care is useless if there are not enough doctors or hospitals to treat you. That is why Medicare for All as a policy was dead on arrival. Without a cost barrier, the current system would become overwhelmed.
tax·a·tion
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the levying of tax.
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money paid as tax.
"direct taxation was low"
le·vy
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impose (a tax, fee, or fine).
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enlist (someone) for military service.
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force (something unwelcome or unfamiliar) to be accepted or put in place.
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take advantage of someone by demanding their attention or commitment.
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Here's the definition of taxation, which has the word levy in it's definition.
Levy means to impose.
Impose means to force something unwelcome to be welcomed.
Force implies violence, and the state is a monopoly on violence.
Thus the state uses force to make us pay taxes, and we pay them because we go to prison if we don't.
I understand you're on benefits from the state and don't pay taxes. This means you're the poor, who the taxed money gets redistributed to. This is why you defend taxation, because you benefit from it.
I'm pro free market and pro private hospitals for this reason.
If hospitals were privitized there would be more of them, and they'd be better stocked and staffed.
Not to mention there's other avenues to travel down besides hospitals for good health outcomes.
There's personal trainers, nutritionalists, lifestyle coaches etc.
Most of america's problem is being fat.
Another problem is that alot of pain is psychosomatic but call it shut like fibromyalgia. To fix this would take a psychotherapist, not a medical doctor.
Unfortunately we live in a world where self ownership isn't emphasized, personal responsibility for one's health is ignored and everything, including obesity, becomes medicalized.
So far people get things like gastric bypass, instead of making better choices, because it ends up being cheaper for the state. This is despite not really knowing if the surgery is 100 percent safe.
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