Making the case for free-market healthcare

Vincent J. Curtis

20 Apr 21

RE: ‘We’re going to collapse this system’ warns Ontario nurse (CBC News story of 20 Apr 21)

The case for a free-market healthcare system is being made every day, in the failure of the present, government-run system; and in the heavy-handed uses of lawfare to try to control the spread.

A free-market healthcare system would look upon a pandemic as a bonanza.  It’s an opportunity to make money.  The pandemic would get treated but not at the cost of failing to treat cancer and heart disease.  The best medical brains would be looking for ways to expand capacity to meet the need.  But in Canada, we get griping about overwork and fitting the patients into the limits of the system, a system cast in concrete.  A system in qhich the government has a vested interest in lying about.

The insurance companies would be doing their best to prevent people from suffering from COVID.  One instrument is insurance premiums, which would go up on people most at risk and who required hospitalization.  Insurance companies would look for real mitigation measures, not fake signs of compliance like worthless masks.  Insurance companies would have focussed on those over eighty years in March and April of 2020, and let the young and healthy develop herd immunity, before the onset of the second and third wave.

We would not have had government imposed lockdowns and lawfare mandates like fining people for using the Hamilton Mountain stairs for exercise.  Government would have no financial or political interest in the matter.

Socialized medicine brings many costs, and loss of freedom is a big one.

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