“I happen to believe that in fact, you can continue operating just fine the way we are, with hospitals required by law to treat people who can’t pay, and all of us picking up the tab. That only works if too many people don’t decide to go the freeloader route, but you can stop that by making the freeloader route unattractive, by making freeloaders wait longer and get less extensive care and treatment.”
So you are o’k if the waiting and the less extensive care and treatment results in more people dying?
I think you are saying that you don’t mind if people die from lack of care so long as you don’t have to see it.
Do you extend this logic to auto care? People die quit frequently from lack of money to pay for repairs or even to buy a safe car. Dead is dead. Does it matter if you die because I wouldn’t fix your brakes or give you a safe car (is it fair that the wealthiest people get to drive the safest cars?) rather than dying because I wouldn’t fix your kidneys?
I can’t make you fix my car, or my kidneys. You have the freeedom to take the jobs you want, and get paid what you want, until government takes over and orders you around.
I think the system now works. I don’t think we have a big problem with cost-shifting.