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Comment: Looking for good arguments against universal healthcare?
Looking for good arguments against universal healthcare?
"Employer-provided health insurance has its origin in a tax policy passed in 1943, which made insurance provided by employers tax free. At the time the United States was engaged in World War II and had enacted wage and price controls,[5] preventing employers from competing for scarce labor using the normal mechanism of offering a higher salary. Instead, businesses used the availability of newly tax-subsidized healthcare as a means of differentiating themselves."
Use this as a chance to bust universal healthcare as well as other arguments like price controls (aka minimum wage).
One of many great arguments made in this short article:
http://mises.org/daily/4434