Yes, it turns out in a country of 340 million people, there are many...

January 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM  ·  Comment — Taryn East's post  ·  View on Facebook  ·  Markdown source

Yes, it turns out in a country of 340 million people, there are many differences in preferences, which entrepreneurs try to satisfy. If socialists get too much power, you end up like Turkmenistan, where you can own any car so long as it's white: https://www.autoturkmen.com/en/posts/turkmenistan-s-color-car-controversy-the-ban-on-non-white-vehicles US healthcare is tied to jobs because of 1. government price controls implemented during WWII 2. preferential tax treatment for healthcare benefits: "To prevent this, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9250, establishing the Office of Economic Stabilization. This froze wages. Businesses were not allowed to raise pay to attract workers. Businesses were smart, though, and instead they began to use benefits to compete. Specifically, to offer more, and more generous, health care insurance. Then, in 1943, the Internal Revenue Service decided that employer-based health insurance should be exempt from taxation. This made it cheaper to get health insurance through a job than by other means." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-the-us-has-employer-sponsored-health-insurance.html So, this socialist is complaining about consequences of past (and ongoing) socialist meddling in the economy. If you want to stop medical care from being tied to employment, the solution is for the government to stop meddling in the market, and move to a direct pay model. https://thinkprogress.org/how-one-oklahoma-hospital-is-driving-down-the-cost-of-health-care-by-thousands-of-dollars-f507cdf32111/