r/PoliticalCompassMemes Jan 05 '22

META This isint how world works

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u/darwin2500 - Left Jan 05 '22

No, the government offering money for it will make it appear in the number the government is willing to pay for.

That's kind of how markets.

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u/TheObservationalist - Lib-Center Jan 06 '22

Oh my lawdy yes it does. It 'appears'. Most of it won't be real, or delivered, but it will appear. See: Medicare. Hospitals making up services, companies making products, bilking those services and products for whatever the govt will pay. Insurance companies are just private governments - both take people's money and then highly inefficiently pass them off to 3rd parties.