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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: John Koligman who wrote (6115)2/13/2009 2:27:34 PM
From: TimF1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 

Because I think healthcare should be a 'public good' provided or guaranteed by government

That is in a sense restating your already expressed opinion in a different way rather than giving the reason for it.

Why shouldn't other vital things be considered a public good?

Food isn't treated as a public good in the normal sense of that term (but perhaps we are using public good in a different way, I would use it as an economic term of art, you may have a different meaning) It is to an extent guaranteed by government with food stamps, but not as a public good. And the subsidy goes to the poor, like Medicaid does for health care, not like nationalizing all health insurance or trying to subsidize the specific good or service in question for everyone.
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