39.17% - Wherever government takes over — healthcare, education, housing — costs rise and quality stagnates; the pattern is consistent enough to be a law of nature.
36.67% - Government can't be fired for wasting money and has no incentive to innovate — that's why every government project runs over budget and underperforms.
10.00% - Government-run healthcare adds layers of bureaucracy without competitive pressure to improve — if the DMV is any guide, a government-run hospital network won't be different.
7.50% - The free market lifted more people out of poverty in the 20th century than all government programs combined — look at China after Deng, Eastern Europe after 1989. The evidence is not ambiguous.
6.67% - Private enterprise faces competitive pressure to reduce costs and improve outcomes — government healthcare removes both incentives; private control with proper regulation is the right model.
Many government programs continue running long after evidence shows they do not work.
55.00% - The US healthcare system has terrible health outcomes.
45.00% - The US healthcare system is inequitable.
52.31% - Government-run healthcare adds layers of bureaucracy without competitive pressure to improve — if the DMV is any guide, a government-run hospital network won't be different.
30.00% - The federal regulatory code is 180,000 pages, half of it probably contradicting the other half — Congress should repeal two regulations for every new one it adds.
10.00% - U.S. healthcare needs reform — costs are too high, the VA is underfunded, rural access is a problem — but the answer is more market competition, not Medicare for All.
7.69% - The VA has some of the worst wait times and administrative failures in American healthcare — veterans served this country and deserve a system built for patients, not bureaucrats.
25.00% - Many government programs continue running long after evidence shows they do not work.
25.00% - Many government programs continue running long after the evidence shows they do not work.
0.00% - Government programs are ineffective.
50.00% - Paul Krugman
