- 16 Mar 2019 06:37
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Neither mercantilism nor keynesianism are the free market but that doesn't make either socialism.
The prov govs don't own the doctors, the nurses, the hospital or the drug companies, all they do is pay the private sector providers on behalf of the citizenry using money taxed from the citizenry. Essentially they are acting like a health insurance company.
The solution to 1984 is 1973!
Pants-of-dog wrote:I would argue that the provincial governments have “ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods” in terms of necessary medical treatments and the associated administrative services.
It is decidedly not free market.
Neither mercantilism nor keynesianism are the free market but that doesn't make either socialism.
The prov govs don't own the doctors, the nurses, the hospital or the drug companies, all they do is pay the private sector providers on behalf of the citizenry using money taxed from the citizenry. Essentially they are acting like a health insurance company.
The solution to 1984 is 1973!