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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 4071870" data-attributes="member: 18225">It’s the same problem we have with Healthcare in this country.Costs are arbitrary and rise based on nothing but profit-based motives.The only reason Healthcare and Post-secondary education are so expensive in the States is that they’re allowed to be.There’s a complete idiot on here saying that ‘college’ costs so much because the Government is involved.I mean, where to start...We’re the richest country in the absolute history of countries, but we’ve made a decision to put profits over everything else...What’s frustrating for many of us is that it doesn’t have to be this way in the States.Just on healthcare: in the US, our healthcare spending is 1/8 of the entire US budget, yet we haven’t reached universal coverage, we’re near the bottom globally in healthcare outcomes, and we spend waaay too much treating end-of-life morbidities that could have been averted had our citizens had simple annual checkups with a doctor.It’s RIDICULOUS.We don’t have a supply problem, we have a distribution problem.We’re literally over-paying so that folk can die in expensive ways.Freedom!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 4071870, member: 18225"] It’s the same problem we have with Healthcare in this country. Costs are arbitrary and rise based on nothing but profit-based motives. The only reason Healthcare and Post-secondary education are so expensive in the States is that they’re allowed to be. There’s a complete idiot on here saying that ‘college’ costs so much because the Government is involved. I mean, where to start... We’re the richest country in the absolute history of countries, but we’ve made a decision to put profits over everything else... What’s frustrating for many of us is that it doesn’t have to be this way in the States. Just on healthcare: in the US, our healthcare spending is 1/8 of the entire US budget, yet we haven’t reached universal coverage, we’re near the bottom globally in healthcare outcomes, and we spend waaay too much treating end-of-life morbidities that could have been averted had our citizens had simple annual checkups with a doctor. It’s RIDICULOUS. We don’t have a supply problem, we have a distribution problem. We’re literally over-paying so that folk can die in expensive ways. Freedom! [/QUOTE]

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