This kind of argument probably worked better in the 90s or something, but it does not hold as much water today.
First, the exorbitant rate of medical inflation in our "market" healthcare system is a fiscal menace not only to the public sector, but to the private sector as well.
Secondly, the deteriorating health of the American workforce is an increasing threat to global competitiveness. An overweight employee pool with high prevalence of unmanaged diabetes is not an attractive one for global capital.
Expanding access, controlling costs and emphasizing preventive care are things we need to get better at out of naked self-interest. Saudi sheiks who want to fly in for a quadruple bypass may continue to do so, but if we lose them to somewhere that bows and scrapes to the mega-rich more than we do, good riddance.
First, the exorbitant rate of medical inflation in our "market" healthcare system is a fiscal menace not only to the public sector, but to the private sector as well.
Secondly, the deteriorating health of the American workforce is an increasing threat to global competitiveness. An overweight employee pool with high prevalence of unmanaged diabetes is not an attractive one for global capital.
Expanding access, controlling costs and emphasizing preventive care are things we need to get better at out of naked self-interest. Saudi sheiks who want to fly in for a quadruple bypass may continue to do so, but if we lose them to somewhere that bows and scrapes to the mega-rich more than we do, good riddance.