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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

It is indeed absolutely insane -inhumane, in fact- that you don't have a competitive public option. Shit, even here, in the Chicago Boys laboratory, there is one...

the swiss do subsidies, and in a way this is how expanded medicaid works: you get a free plan that's fulfilled by a private insurer like blue cross.

the problem is that to qualify for medicaid expansion you have to constantly "prove that you're poor" to your own state. which is a bad incentive.

the chicago boys would prefer that you get free money to spend as you please rather than a government program with the massive bureaucracy that it entails. eg healthcare vouchers for an insurance plan.

they invented the earned income tax credit for example.

eta: oh, and friedman had a huge role helping to end conscription, which he considered to be the basis of "an army of slaves."