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I'm fine with idiots blowing their own hands off, I just worry about wildfires.

that is until you can't have a hospital bed due to those idiots.

That has more to do with hospitals hyper-optimizing for profit. And a regular demand actually improves the situation here.

Is that the line for regulations you're okay with holding on to? If so you better start regulating how many beds each hospital has as well, if bed demand is the bar you must control bed supply.

of course in Germany hospital bed supplies are regulated by the local states via LKHG law

As is any rationally run state.

Is your point that the only rational model includes the government having fill control over healthcare and the medical industry?

Yes. I am.

Government is democratically elected by the people, therefore, they are the ones that can make decisions for the people.

Why healthcare specifically, and where so you draw the line? Are you okay with democratically elected officials making any decision for the people as they see fit?

Don’t they do that when they make laws?

Well that's effectively my point? Are you okay with elected officials having the power to write whatever law they wish simply because they were democratically elected?

Surely there must be a line and you aren't granted the elected body control to do literally whatever they want.

the line is the constitution

We were talking about the US here though. Its very different when the government already effectively controls healthcare as a whole, of course they would control or have a large say in hospital bed numbers, for example.

For better or worse the US healthcare system is largely private. If the government isn't running the hospitals or directly paying for all care they shouldn't be stipulating quotas for access to various kinds of care.

We couldn't get people to wear masks to reduce the spread and help keep beds open for all the other typical needs, why would they let harm from fireworks impede them?

It's still bad for emergency services if everyone does it on the same day.

They’ll just run triage and tend to people who are easier to fix first and leave the more suicidal ones for later.

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