Kind of a good idea if (and that's a big fucking if) the videos just were properly protected. I mean how else could you prove cell phone use after a crash?
They don't have the know-how and interest to protect the videos though so fuck this.
Yeah, exactly. Point being that there isn't just one way to do private healthcare, which means that just because one way of doing it is bad doesn't mean that others must be as well.
This is just my take and in parts a guess since obviously I didn't go there.
Peter Thiel is not Dr. Evil. He's just a guy with a lot of resources and name recognizition, so he can invite people to a conference. People get together to talk. Somebody attending does not mean they agree with whoever organized the thing.
And specifically: Kaja Kallas attending does not change who Kaja Kallas is. Her party is the Estonian Reform Party, a conservative liberal party, so it kind of tracks that she hangs out with business leaders. Most importantly (I think), it doesn't change her awesome work and results in EU against Russian belligerence.
So the dissonance: you (seem to) think that everyone who goes to a Thiel conference is some sort of a crook. But here's a person who is obviously not a crook. Perhaps the first assumption was wrong?
USA has one of the worst examples of health care: 17% GDP spending on health care. It's not just the most expensive private health care system, it's the most expensive health care system.
But it's also not a fully privatized health care system, or even the most privatized one. Roughly half of the insurance spending is public via Medicare, Medicaid, military, etc.
Switzerland's and Netherland's systems can be viewed as more privatized (100% of insurances are via private sector, NL almost all hospitals are private), and are way more efficient than the US system.
Looks like privatized health care + private insurance works the best, but it does seem to require some guardrails (which you might call socialism, I guess). But also devil's in the details and it's possible to do everything badly. I also wouldn't be too amazed if somebody managed to do fully socialized healthcare well. But I would be amazed if such a system stayed good longer than a few decades.
Kind of a good idea if (and that's a big fucking if) the videos just were properly protected. I mean how else could you prove cell phone use after a crash?
They don't have the know-how and interest to protect the videos though so fuck this.