If it’s okay to get rid of the profit motive in healthcare and make healthcare free for everyone because people need it to survive, what’s stopping Bernie Sanders supporters from advocating free housing and free food for everyone at the point of service? Are IPads going to be free then? People need technology to survive nowadays.
If everything someone needs to survive gets paid for by the government, people only need to work to buy luxuries that they want. But what if you don’t want luxuries? I really don’t want luxuries and 90% of what people buy isn’t luxury. If 90% of the stock market gets nationalized, then that turns us into the USSR.
If it’s bad to nationalize food and housing, how is nationalizing healthcare any different? Is the profit motive acceptable in EVERY industry if it’s acceptable with food and housing? I think it is.
I support price ceilings for essential goods where there is a monopoly control, but other than that, a 100% free market approach is ideal I think.