[throwaway77770]

> But it's not the governments job to legalize theft and pick the winners and losers, it's the governments job to fix the underlying issues.

So in other words, don't try to paper over the flaws of capitalism by instantiating a welfare state from taxes; instead abolish capitalism directly?

Probably not what you meant, but it could be read that way.

[camhart]

You are correct. I never said, or intended to say, capitalism was the problem.

For example, waste is estimated to account for 25% of healthcare costs. I've worked with with hospitals, and they do things incredibly inefficiently due to all sorts of bureaucratic and political nonsense. There's a massive amount of resistance to change. I believe they're allowed to get away with it primarily because hospitals generally aren't allowed to fail. I'm not arguing we need to close up hospitals, but something needs to change there to encourage improvement.