The problem with all the varieties of universal healthcare that I have heard are threefold: 1. They create disparities in market pricing which inevitably prevent innovation funding from big companies (R&D is cut first usually) and often decrease certain comparative advantages/disadvantages to the point of companies going out of business or significantly downsizing resources. 2. [...]
I’ve noticed a few things as I’ve rummaged through news articles, blogs and economic data that has made me think the outcome of 1930s is not upon us, but that we are susceptible to something completely different: 1. We had a 3% increase in GDP in 2007 and 2% in 2008 vs -8% in 1930 [...]