Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Eric Cartman]

I'm not. I'm saying the decisions of a for-profit business are motivated by profit.

Look, if you're not going to actually explain why you think scarcity doesn't exist then this is a useless conversation. I'm not going to convince you that murder of anyone you want is unjustified.

I think you're wrong on this one; Firstly, I don't believe that use of force is acceptable where alternative methods of change exist, and where use of force is required it should be both measured and proportional, and executing a dude in the street in a democratic nation is neither of those things.

But the scarcity argument is flawed. It creates inefficiency, not solves it.
There already exists mechanisms in healthcare to distribute limited resources to those that most need it - its called triage.
For-profit health insurance changes the criteria for triage from those in most need to care, to those best able to afford it, specifically those with the best insurance.
It removes the treatment assessment criteria away from the doctors performing the care to the actuaries looking at a spreadsheet, and, worse, it creates perverse disincentives; the trust fund kid who broke his arm snowboarding and has super double platinum insurance will get a barrage of tests they don't even need (utilising those self same scarce resources) while the guy whose insurance company decided his best treatment is experimental and won't pay for it gets to bankrupt himself before his long painful death from cancer.
That shit ain't right.

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