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Very effective and a good choice, but I know someone who had a child after getting an IUD.
IUD pregnancies are often extrauterine (which are mostly non viable, so that solves the unwanted pregnancy problem). And there's still abortion. I wonder to what point having a child was a choice in the case you evoked.
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Calm down. Assuming bad faith is for Reddit, not here. Your argument is making a straw man. You are the first commenter to bring up public utilities. Everybody needs water. Systems that are accountable to local government are the most effective way to get it. Usually that is with a publicly-owned water corporation. A basket of goods is far different. Back to the subject actually at hand: some people will need cloth d…
And tone policing is its own uncharitable rhetorical style. You said "letting the market deliver necessities". Water is a necessity. I'm also for single-payer government run state-wide/national health systems. Somehow those work and are more cost-effective for overall public health, despite a variability of need which is far higher than that of diapers. Now, I agree that akira2501's proposal isn't tenable, and in a p…
If you re-read my comment, you will see that I provide a counterexample to the "all markets for everything" narrative.
Your response indicates that you think I'm a member of the opposing intellectual "team" and you need to defend yours. Not only do I acknowledge that single-payer is effective in several countries, I believe that it is one of many possible solutions to the U.S. healthcare problem.
My comment was narrowly disputing the effectiveness of a centralized planning system for market commodities. Even the NHS has considerable decentralized aspects.
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Is that what you do? Eat your own puke? For me it was straightforward enough to just quickly swallow it again as it emerged. No need for any additional ceremony.
No I leave that to ignorant commenters that add nothing to the discussion.