Mark Cuban's Healthcare Fix: We Need a Single-Payer System

No more so than claiming that access to clean water is a human right demands the time and expertise of plumbers, systems engineers, and environmental enforcement agents.

These things aren't, strictly speaking, necessary. Technically, saying access to clean water is a right just means no one can stop you from drinking from whatever public water source is around. But it turns out if you keep that water clean, safe, and move it around to make it easier to access, then more people can have clean water. The improvements to efficiency and quality such that either the Government or the private sector find it justified to fulfill these rolls.

Similarly, it turns out having someone go to school for like 10 years and then just throwing a bunch of money at them is way more efficient than relying on the community at large to just collectively remember how to take care of and repair a body. Paying companies to make clean, targeted medicines and distribute them nationally is way better than just relying on locally available herbs and plants. So the Government or the private sector are thus incentivized to fulfill these rolls (i.e. by paying enough to attract people willing to dedicate the time and effort).

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