It literally would. Subsidies invariably result in cost disease, because there's more money for the same amount of value in the market.
> It is hard to see how it could be worse.
This isn't a very useful statement - it would just literally get worse. You don't have to visualize it.
> Definitely not. Competition is good in some areas, very bad in others.
Where is competition bad? You haven't pointed any areas out. Competition seems obviously good to me basically everywhere.
> Most health care does not fit well
Which is not a property intrinsic to healthcare, but a mere result of the fact that the government hasn't legislated price transparency in that area into effect yet.
> Many countries have socialised systems that use waiting lists rather than wealth to ration access to health care.
...which is obviously stupid because, unlike situations where you pay for your care, adding people to a wait list does not fund further capacity.
It literally would. Subsidies invariably result in cost disease, because there's more money for the same amount of value in the market.
> It is hard to see how it could be worse.
This isn't a very useful statement - it would just literally get worse. You don't have to visualize it.
> Definitely not. Competition is good in some areas, very bad in others.
Where is competition bad? You haven't pointed any areas out. Competition seems obviously good to me basically everywhere.
> Most health care does not fit well
Which is not a property intrinsic to healthcare, but a mere result of the fact that the government hasn't legislated price transparency in that area into effect yet.
> Many countries have socialised systems that use waiting lists rather than wealth to ration access to health care.
...which is obviously stupid because, unlike situations where you pay for your care, adding people to a wait list does not fund further capacity.