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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: gg cox who wrote (4885)2/25/2008 1:48:23 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Medical care isn't provided (even in countries with single payer, or even fully socialized health care systems) as "the commons" (maybe the governments call it that but a dog still has four legs if you call its tail a leg). Its provided as services to individuals. The government may pay for it but that doesn't make it commons.

Maybe the government responses to pandemics might be "the commons", but treatments for individuals are not.
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