I could give two shits about wealth distribution. I care about long term costs. THAT is where the real distribution occurs. Yes, the Finnish model is much more efficient and by efficient I mean the long term costs to society will be far less and in fact, there will be less wealth distribution, not more. Conservatives in general (I'm not one of them) do not oppose entitlements, they oppose abuse of entitlements especially the left using entitlements for votes. This is why they scream louder then a baby if you threaten to cut social security benefits. They WANT entitlements, they just don't like how they are used by the left to win elections. If you remove the mechanism by which the left scores votes, you would find they would happily support these entitlements. And this is why the left would NEVER support this Finnish model, trust me. Oh they would at first until they read all the op ed pieces about it and they would change their minds quickly.
Look, it was a republican, Richard Nixon, that first came up with the idea of universal healthcare by expanding Medicaid for everyone. He came up with this proposal because he thought it would be far more efficient then moving to a single payer model where the gov't had to run the healthcare system. In the end, his proposal would have lowered long term costs tremendously. Who opposed it? You guessed it, the liberals. And round and round we go.
