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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (40333)9/30/2015 4:37:45 PM
From: Lane3   of 42652
 
That was an interesting piece in several ways. Thanks for posting it.

Canada has accepted health care in general as a transcendental good, a necessity that must be made available to all citizens. But it has also embraced the market as the appropriate venue for the purchase of necessary medical supplies.
I didn't recall ever before having seen the notion of transcendental goods vs. common goods. Common goods and particular goods but not transcendental goods. Feeling ignorant, I searched and found that the Internet was ignorant, as well. I like the term, though. It's useful to have a label for what it describes. I have made a note of "transcendental goods."

Also interesting was the split assignment in Canada. Never having thought of it before, I thought all health care in your country was in the transcendental category (except timely care, that is <gg>). Using the author's classification, I guess one could say that the US considers emergency care transcendental but not any other care that comes readily to mind. So it obviously doesn't need to be all or nothing. The differentiation might make a helpful metric for determining what to nationalize or what to mandate for coverage or what to ration.

Or not. I'd have to think about that some more.
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