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But it's not eeeeeeequal!

One of the most interesting paradoxes of our era is that leftists tend to hate the police and military, even though the society they envision necessitates these both to be extremely strong and intrusive. The post "If you hate the police, why more government?" by "Mahalanobis" says that

Government is ultimately a coercive organization, and giving it more power necessarily involves increasing it's police activity. Those clamoring for more government should understand that it will be the military or police supporting their objectives. And if they are neutering these bodies while giving them more responsibility, their tactics are not aligned with strategy, a recipe for futility.

This is actually the same reason why I am so sure that Canada's idiotic health care system where buying health care services in the free market is a crime will collapse within next five years or so, as surely as the Berlin Wall collapsed when it was no longer possible to enforce it and everybody saw that the grass really was greener on the other side.

As lines and waiting times keep growing longer in an overburdened system (just a few days ago I saw a poster ad by Ontario nurses, complaining that there is a shortage of nurses and they are overworked --- hmmm, I wonder where they all vanished?), the patients' incentive to buy health care services increases. How exactly did you plan to watch over doctors and patients so that you could catch them? Pretty soon this reliance on the free market would become so widespread that to enforce this silly law, you would need to have a totalitarian surveillance state beyond even the wildest dreams of leftists. Without such a system, you'd probably have a better chance of catching an illegal music downloader than a patient who goes to a doctor for some operation and pays him for his services himself. And every doctor who offers his services in the black market in this manner creates an incentive for the other doctors to do the same to supplement their incomes. In numbers, there is safety and anonymity, and it sucks to let others gather all profits.

And even if such a totalitarian surveillance system were able to find lawbreakers, I don't think that some guy who is sick and in pain and therefore wants treatment now instead of waiting for months in line for the government-rationed services makes a very good defendant from the prosecutor's point of view. One public trial like that and that's that about that for the strictly government-rationed one-tier system of health care.

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I hope the Canadian socialist health-care system collapses, but I think it might just slump into the health-care system of the old Soviet Union, which was socialized to outward appearances, but actually ran on bribery. A semi-free market like that is not optimal. Since participants (especially consumers) fear denunciation to the authorities, who may punish the them for market transactions (if only by extorting more bribes) they are more suspicious, and cheating becomes common. Lack of advertising also hampers such a black market.

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