If society desire health care and clean environment, why free market don't provide it?
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Health care in the UK is served by both the NHS (National Health Service) and the private sector. The private sector 'cherry pick' their clients. The premiums are based on age and health. Or a one off operation/consultation can be bought. In my experience these premiums are then raised each year, to take account of deteriorating health/age.
The private sector charges for every item. People have a set amount of cover. The amount they charge quickly 'spends' their cover. So they may have 6 weeks cover for hospital stay, 4 weeks in private nursing home. I have had to move dying people from a private hospital bed to a Council run nursing home due to lack of availability in a private home beds. Then after doing all this, the Council bed became unavailable and I had to move one man into a now vacant private nursing home placement. He died one day before his 'pre-paid time' was up in the private home or I would have had to have found him another placement.
They are but it is expensive and only the rich can afford it. The general public will get it when the cost comes down so all can afford it. (Basic principles of economics)
Free markets provide what buyers want.
And in general, buyers want to buy stuff cheap. Keeping a clean environment is not cheap, as you will notice that products made from recycled materials always costs more than regular products.
As for health care, universal health care would solve a lot of our problems about access to care, but the health care industry -- especially insurance industry and pharmaceuticals -- have always opposed this because they feel it will cut their profits.
Free markets cost money. The goal of medicine is not to cure necessarily but to make money. Listen all you want to their propaganda, but if they can't make money they will quit making medicine.
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