Common Sense Soapbox
About this show
Short videos with a punchy, comedic tone and entertaining Socratic characters taking on trending issues and important concepts from a classical liberal perspective, written & animated by Seamus Coughlin.
Medicare for All is a bad idea
June 15, 2022
“Free health care for everyone!!!” It’s all the rage, but is it actually feasible?
On this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Bubble Man makes a plea for universalized, free health care from his hospital bed. As Seamus explains, Bubble Man’s dreams are only possible in… well… a bubble.
CREDITS:
Written by Seamus Coughlin & Sean W. Malone
Animated by Seamus Coughlin
Produced & Edited by Sean W. Malone
Cuba Health Care:
https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article/33/6/755/5035051
Canada Health Care:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-08-03/canadians-increasingly-come-to-us-for-health-care
https://mises.org/wire/false-promise-canadas-health-care-system
https://mises.org/wire/myth-they-used-pass-canadas-universal-healthcare
https://mises.org/wire/universal-health-care-canada-colossal-government-failure
https://mises.org/wire/solution-canadas-failed-universal-health-care-system-consumer-and-physician-freedom
US Health Care:
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2014/jun/mirror-mirror-wall-2014-update-how-us-health-care-system
https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5778/rr-0
https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm
https://fee.org/articles/single-payer-health-care-is-anything-but/
https://www.dailysignal.com/2017/11/01/think-obamacare-is-bad-bernies-single-payer-plan-would-be-devastating/
https://fee.org/articles/why-single-payer-health-care-delivers-poor-quality-at-high-cost/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2019/10/17/why-not-try-free-market-health-care/?sh=662b200b5358
https://fee.org/articles/government-makes-healthcare-worse-and-more-expensive/
https://mises.org/wire/half-health-spending-us-now-government-spending
https://fee.org/articles/3-ways-regulation-makes-health-care-expensive/
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality-u-s-healthcare-system-compare-countries/
Japan Health Care:
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international-health-policy-center/countries/japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_system_in_Japan#Quality
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1226232/
India Health Care:
https://www.internationalstudentinsurance.com/india-student-insurance/healthcare-system-in-india.php
