my thought on what some people are saying about healthcare

Recently I heard someone say that providing unanimous basic healthcare is good for the labor force because it keeps everyone healthy and able to work.

This type of basic analysis of inputs and outputs ignores a few things.

Firstly if the statement above is true than it should also hold that back massages and nationally planned vacations should also be paid for. Everyone should have at least a standard bed, or a standard refrigerator. Everyone should be given government soap and deluxe dining. After all a happy employ is also a better worker. This is obviously not true. Like a vacation, a back massage, a bed, a refrigerator, soap and luxury dining, healthcare is a choice. You can either shell out the $10,000 for lasik, deal with your glasses, or not drive. It's your choice. the same way I can either go to a movie, rent a movie, watch tv, or be bored.

The second assumption this type of perspective ignores is that healthcare itself is an industry, where people innovate, take risk, go to work, get fired, and get hired. The assumption that everyone should get free healthcare on some level ignores the existence of entrepreneurs that are shelling out their investments to come up new and improved ways of healing and improving the happiness of their customers. Healthcare can and should be delivered in a variety of ways. Healthcare is absolutely not a single uniform product and the assumption that it can just be provided is obscene. That's like saying all food is that same and trying to package every meal into a single insurance plan. No. I want sushi one day, pizza another and everything I haven't even tried or thought up yet. This type of flexibility is only possible when industries are free to innovate. And frankly, I think it's fine that organizations are experimenting with humans. Especially if they're experimenting to make our lives better and the experimentees voluntarily opt in.

Big picture. Healthcare is a choice and the options to choose from should be as wide as the market can provide.