Everyone pays into public healthcare through taxes, so that would present unfair competition. Price caps may provide short term benefits for consumers, but they have negative long term effects on medical research and development funding. Market distortion as a result of price capping has led to a decrease in revenue of $18-27 billion per year for all medical providers in OECD countries. As a result, global medical research and development loses $5-8 billion per year, which causes 3-4 fewer new molecular entities (NMEs) to be invented per year. The estimated value of those NMEs' benefit to medical consumers is estimated at $4.9-7.5 billion. In short, unless price capping is being used to bring stability to a market (e.g. agriculture), distorting the market leads to adverse long term effects

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Present unfair competition how? In between public and private healthcare?

Short term harm to the consumer is much more than that when you can't afford to go to the doctor when you feel ill

Which is long term as people live healthier, more productive lives

There is a reason that the infant mortality rate is so high in the us

Private healthcare companies compete for the customers' money. If the public option was funded by taxes, then it wouldn't even have to compete in that regard.
Understood. As I said earlier, I believe decreasing the price of healthcare is important and that there are better ways to do so than price capping
A large part of the reason why the infant mortality rate is so high in the US is because the US has a broader definition of when a baby is "born". In Europe, a < 1 lb baby at 21 weeks' gestation is not considered born and is therefore not included in the infant mortality statistics. In the US, that baby would be considered born and would be included in the infant mortality statistics

@Deleted User man those sure are some nice charts

whats the point though

The point is that America is (ostensibly) not great

Hey guys I need a favour if you could all vote fascist in this poll I would really appreciate it.

I’m trying to prove a point to some gender fluid Green Party member

https://strawpoll.com/gw8k4r6c

You're trying to prove a point by rigging a vote? @Deleted User

I like it

I appreciate the support

I'm doing my part 👌

voted socialist 😎

what the frick not epic

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Italian fascism is a meme

where's centrism? nowhere

^

too few options

smh

@Mairon You don't mind if I post a couple more polls here in the future do you?

He's not staff

But can I?

@Deleted User what's the point you're trying to make

fascists are lame

😎

That people on the internet will gravitate towards the most extreme ideologies and so there should be a better representation of those extreme ideologies in modern democracies

@Deleted User

Except that the internet doesn't represent any specific citizenship

It is more extreme tho

New poll more parties

Plz help me fuck up democracy