The oxymoron of 'universal health care'
healthy, and pariahs regardless of the system, because it is always politically-motivated.
However, free market systems are still much more efficient, even with that in mind. As long as the government maintains the inefficiency of resource redistribution by its social programs, we cannot compare the financial burdens imposed on the individual by different systems. There is no reason why private redistribution-based health insurance cannot be more efficient in a private system than it is in a socialized system.
In essence, the issue is about economic freedom. The more economic freedom that exists in a given system, the more efficient and consumer-oriented it is. The less freedom there is, the more politically-motivated and inefficient it is. Some people invoke the importance of health care as a motivation to keep it socialized, but it is precisely because health care is vital that we should take it away from political interests. By taking the market in our own hands, we will be able to find solutions that could never exist otherwise.
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