# Shooting for Sweden, Hitting Venezuela

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-for-sweden-hitting-venezuela/820952>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 7, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-for-sweden-hitting-venezuela/820952 "2018-09-07T16:46:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![survinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@survinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/survinga)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-for-sweden-hitting-venezuela/820952/201 "2018-09-22T11:11:58Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
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> If you think this is “laughable” then you don’t understand what “market-driven” means, and you definitely don’t understand the fundamental difference between health insurance as a business and health insurance as a universal patient-centric public service.

If I have no choices, and no idea what anything costs, and can’t go out and buy my own health insurance, then there’s not a market. That’s the situation for most people in the US. It’s not market driven. You can yell as loud as you want, and it doesn’t make it so.

And I think I know more about health insurance as a business than you do.

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