ACC is not what it was, the original concept of ACC and public healthcare are in fact the lowest cost solution to an economic problem.
The original ACC was not a large cost to business but it was attacked with a rediculous demand that it be fully funded. That's when the costs started mounting up.
This was done with an eye to discrediting it then selling it off to private interests. Because it was working very well and in the public interest but no-one was gouging any money out of it.
ACC has a vested interest in not arguing who is responsible for injuries but instead fixing the causes.
Like the ladders around the house campaign which raised awareness of the safety aspects.
Similarly public healthcare is systematically underfunded with an eye to discrediting it. Nothing to do with how it works just blind dogma.
Having insurance companies and an industry to argue the point can't be cheaper or more humane than just looking after people when they get sick.
It's really twisted to say you are sick but haven't got any money, just buzz off into a quiet corner and die.
I see these cases from a purely capitalist perspective in similar terms to the electricity industry. Having effective competition is meaningless as you can't duplicate the grid, healthcare or accident prevention and rehabilitation.
I am an advocate of small government but a pragmatist and in all these cases the lowest cost solution is simply to have an organisation dedicated to resolving these isssues not making money.
The only other neccessary function of government is defence but more co-ordination of local militia than the capitalist big state war machine.
All this comment is with my capitalist hat on just purely in terms Adam Smith would understand.
I lean more to the anarchist side of things (or beyond anarchism like bookchin and foucault) and disagree with Marxist ideas like public education that I see as too right wing.
With politics as investing no-one knows what they are taking about so we can't really get past the first principles and move to the really interesting and crucial questions.
Everyone is welcome to an opinion but unless you have considered both sides your opinion will remain worthless. It's similar to investing, hardly anyone knows what they are talking about.
Not stupid just haven't done their homework, y'all are welcome to disagree with me and be wrong. I have thought it through and chosen an irrefutable position which just happens to be opposite to what everyone else thinks.
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