The CBO has just analyzed the two different ways the third party payers will always fail; either they will be powerful enough to stop providing service but keep collecting money, or they will be weak and succumb to the whims of people who set prices. Any market that doesn't have a suite of clients and a suite of providers, all competing on price, will eventually spiral out of control if people act according to basic selfishness. Monopoly or monopsony, both are unstable.

In the case of government health care, you have every economic problem sublimated into a question of votes, bribes and bureaucratic dithering.

Apparently Timothy Noah loves it. Should you?

You freaking lier!

Canada and the EU deliver a much higher quality of care and at ONE HALF the cost with their system...you are just a freaking LIER.

And they outcompete us because our poor auto industry guys have to pay $1,000 a car for health care.

You are just a LIER, LIER! LIE!

EIther that or you are stone cold NUTS, INSANE. You are living in a delusional fantasy world.

Easy candoxx. It is a well known fact that Canadian and British care sucks. The EU also does not do as much R&D as we do- so our health costs subsidize the EUs indirectly. The EU also does not spend much money on defense because we also subsidize it with our military there.

Don't go on about our "poor auto industry guys" BS. Please! They get $100k severance packages and can sit idol and get paid for it. Then wonder where it all went wrong.

A well known fact among idiots...

I know lots of British and Canadian people. Every single one of them, while no huge fan of their system, prefer it to ours. Every the neocons (yes I know a few Canadian neocons).