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I know psychologically you have to be contrarian to everything everyone else is going to say in this thread, but its getting a bit ridiculous. Comparing an industry centered on goods that are both consumable and perishable, which requires they be sold in a timely manner so as not to become losses, to a service based industry? You yourself used the phrase "Im comparing apples with apples:" earlier in this discussion.
And further, there are so many players in the food-industry that I can barely begin to list them all here (farmers, farmers markets, chain-grocers, specialty food retailers, wholesalers, fishermen, etc. etc., all of whom have an impact on the final price of goods), but with insurance there are only a handful of major players.
Thanks for the condecension.
Either way, so you agree 'OMFG PROFITEERING' is hollow agitprop? That the problem is not the profit notive, but the (alleged) monopolization of the healthcare business?
No, I don't agree. I think it was quite clear that I was calling you out on your hypocrisy and piss-poor argument, not making an argument. And further, you haven't even mentioned the word monopoly before now. In fact, on the very first page of this discussion, you said
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All these reforms and measures are nothing but covert ways of increasing redistribution, and in the process, perfectly functional systems of saving and insurance are rendered disfunctional.
And from there, you started blaming people for breaking contracts, and the fact that they took contracts with loopholes in them. No mention of our insurance system itself being broken, or monopolies being at the root. So please, if you're going to try and deflect me by trying to make it look like I agree with you on something, don't use a steaming pile to do it (it leaves a bad taste when you shove it in my mouth).
