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From Variety:
Quotas obligating Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services operating in the European Union to dedicate at least 30% of their on-demand catalogs to local content are set to become enshrined in law soon.
Roberto Viola, head of the European Commission department that regulates communications networks, content and technology, said the new rules, which will also demand visibility and prominence of European product on streamers, are on track to be approved in December.
"We just need the final vote, but it's a mere formality," he told Variety at the Venice Film Festival.
Netflix, Amazon and other streamers will be required to fund TV series and films produced in Europe by commissioning content, acquiring it or paying into national film funds through a small surcharge added to their subscription fee, something which is already happening in Germany. Netflix tried unsuccessfully to fight the German surcharge in court.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday September 04 2018, @06:22PM (4 children)
Because what you're describing as 'privatized' is nothing of the sort. It's been progressively collectivized and it's no less collectivized in the US than in European model countries. It's simply been collectivized in a different way - primarily for the benefit of insurance companies, and other big players in the health care market.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @07:14PM (3 children)
So there's really no real-world example we can point to of modern, capitalist medicine.
Is there?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @08:03PM
china ?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678764/#CR1 [nih.gov]
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Tuesday September 04 2018, @08:08PM
Medical tourism probably comes closest. People fly in from somewhere else, pay, get treated and fly home. It's mostly elective or cosmetic surgery, but it does provide a model for the system.
From memory so don't quote me, I think the costs for cosmetic surgery in Thailand were about one third that of surgery in in AU. There was a current affairs show interviewing people doing it from here and even with the airfare it was cheaper.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday September 04 2018, @10:55PM
The best we can do is distinguish between markets which are a bit more or less free in various ways, but there is no real free market for medical care, anywhere.
As someone else already mentioned, medical tourism might be the closest thing to look at, places like Thailand for instance have relatively less regulation (at least in some important ways) and as a result we see things like people from Canada and Sweden skipping the lines and flying to Thailand for care. But that's not really a free market, it's just one slightly less unfree corner of a much larger and incredibly unfree market. They're still competing directly against socialized systems in a setting where they can't possibly compete on price, yet they do brisk business, so they're doing something people like.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?