Sarah Palin: Completely bat****

[Imran Siddiqui]

I used the term "free market" to compare it to socialized medicine. I never said it was a free market in the way libertarians use the term. It's incredible that you can't grasp that.

Do you literally have any idea what the "free market" means? Here is a hint, it doesn't exist in the United States. Another hint, that's why we call it a mixed economy.

Consider yourself educated.

[DirtyMartini]

You give old crackpots waaaaayyyy too much credit.

Damn, humor detector malfunctioned.

[Kidlicious]

Do you literally have any idea what the "free market" means? Here is a hint, it doesn't exist in the United States. Another hint, that's why we call it a mixed economy.

Consider yourself educated.

Here's a clue for you. A mixed economy is like a free market economy.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Kind of torn about the whole denial of health care to the old fogies.

On the one hand I'm not so far away from that age myself anymore. On the other hand it would be sweet poetic justice for all those hippy country destroying baby boomers to reap what they sow.

[Kidlicious]

Imran,

As is resources are allocated with a price mechanism, ****!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Here's a clue for you. A mixed economy is like a free market economy.

No, not really. Its kinda like a mix (hence the term) between a free market and a socialist system.

Unless you define "like", as no one else does, meaning distantly related. In which case, a mixed economy, like the US, is like a socialist economy. Yay for your retardedness

Seriously, you are as bad as the people who call France "socialist"

[KrazyHorse]

Oh so now it's socialized medicine? Nothing like a free market? You really must be a libertarian. Figures.

It's probably closer to fully socialized medicine than to a "fully free" market, yes. And is much closer to the "socialized" end of the scale than most other segments of the US economy are.

Seriously, ****: the government DIRECTLY PURCHASES half the medical care in the US, then heavily subsidizes the other half. How the **** does that make it a "free market"?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

What does "like like" mean? I'm guessing it has incestous overtones since it has something to do with being distantly related.

[KrazyHorse]

Direct and indirect (subsidy) government expenditures added together on health care are probably close to 65% of all health care purchases.

But damnit, that's a free market according to kiddytard.

[Lorizael]

posters != topic

[KrazyHorse]

I addressed both the poster and the topic.



Or: the poster IS the topic

[rah]

The only really free market aspect is when companies are shopping for healthcare each year. They all get the same subsidy and heath care companies will compete for their business. But that's about it.
It is silly for global companies to have to do this state by state in the US.

[KrazyHorse]

Having to explain basic philosophic truths to Lori:

[Japher]

[KrazyHorse]