Does everyone really need to buy health insurance?
As long as we're not allowing emergency rooms to reject patients, I think a certain level of it needs to exist.
We are talking about govt meddling with income and pay. Govt meddling in the medical market is huge also. Costs are higher in both cases because the Govt keeps trying to solve some problem that doesn't need a govt solution.
Indeed. Introduce a substantial portion of the population that's paying *cash* for their healthcare and you'd see a drastic amount of reform and a huge drop in prices, I think.
We'd still want 'everybody' covered with some sort of catastrophic medical plan, even if all it covers is hospice or a clean exit, I think.
That "noise" represents votes. Then we're back to voting for free stuff from the .gov.
Does it cover enough votes though? It took WWII price freezes to make healthcare expected.
Minimum should be $.01/hr. If you want more, you have to negotiate for it.
No argument from me here.
And you keep missing the point. .gov is the problem, not the solution to ANY problem. For an example: $7.25/hr in Hawaii is not the same as $7.25/hr in the hills and hollers of WV.
Then we will have to agree to disagree, I think. There are problems that the .gov is the solution for, or at least the
least worse solution. It does indeed CAUSE a lot of problems.
Plus unemployment would be zero and pretty much stay there if there was no minimum wage (barring a Great Depression).
No, it wouldn't. You'd have plenty of people looking for jobs that pay a sufficient amount above costs(such as commuting and work clothing) to justify the hassle.
That being said, getting government OUT of the way such that:
1. People can live cheaply - Mostly out of the hands of the feds, more local. Things like minimum apartment sizes(yes, this is a thing), various other mandates that raise expenses for no real good reason.
2. Hiring is not really that much of a risk(hard to fire them later?)
3. There's enough *consumption* (goods&services) going around that there's work enough for everybody
etc...