Yes, because health care only deals with life-threatening conditions.
Wow, another flip answer from a Libertarian….how surprising.
There still fails to be any valid point here, what does private dentists have to do with the right to free medical treatment?
And where do the vast majority of advances in medical research come from? And in which country is/are almost all of the world's pre-eminent research and facilites?
The Nation with the most money in the world.
Unfortunately all those advances in medical research, all those billions of dollars invested in to research and facilities dose not translate into a high level of health care accost the board for American citizens.
Pre-ww2 citizens of the US had the best standard of health in the world, they lived the longest, were on average the healthiest…. But ever since the developed world started adopting universal health care the faults of the profit oriented system have been exposed. The US now accost the board has fallen behind every developed nation that has established universal health care.
Is universal healthcare a Libertarian policy?
So if you are not a Libertarian you are a socialist?
There are more than four tigers and their common characteristic is they developed very rapidly by leveraging their best resource (human capital), allowing people to work for wages that have been characterized as "enslavement."
“The four Asian tigers”…. I fail to see how there could be more then four.
And you are right in a way, these four nations did developed quickly by creating export based economy’s. But in that sense they are the exception, because there are dozens of other nations that try to leverage human capital, that allow people to work for low wages, with out regulated economy’s or workers rights and where are they….. the 3rd world nations of this earth.
These Asian nations developed at the rate they did because as soon as they started making money they took that money and put it back into education, health care, social welfare, improving the wages and conditions of workers. No nation will ever become a developed and modern society with out welfare, health care, public education… it is simply impossible and history proves that fact very clearly.
The success of these nations, as much as Libertarians wish, is not because of any implication of “Libertarian” policies. It is far more complex then that, a combination of effective authoritarian governments, US support and aid and convient timing in the world economy.
If these nations had followed Libertarian principles only a select minority of these nations would be reaping the benefits, not the entire populist.
What on earth is your point? The simple fact remains that countries that have deregulated their economies (most of SE Asia, Chile, Ireland, most of Eastern Europe) have developed much more quickly than the ones that haven't. Most economists today debate the speed at which economies should be deregulated (ever heard of Shanghai?): deregulation is considered to be an inherently 'good' thing.
Over-regulation is obviously a bad thing, just as under regulation is. The success of these economy’s is not by eliminating all regulations (as Libertarians propose) it is in finding the appropriate medium where they are not over-regulating and choking off business but not under-regulating and depriving workers of their rights.
Any developed nation, or nation moving into that status are the ones which don’t subscribe to Libertarian principles and provide social welfare to it’s citizens. It is the Social Democracy that provides success, both political and economical.
