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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (13580)2/25/2010 3:06:38 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Plumbers are not as regulated as health insurers.

Also they have lower effective start up costs, you aren't likely to get big monopolies or oligopolies, and esp. not abusive monopolies and oligopolies, if a singer person can effectively start his own business without a tremendous amount of difficulty. Plumbers also face competition from do-it yourself workers, and unlicensed plumbers, not something that's you have the equivalent of in health insurance (well the rich, and some large companies, can self insure, but for most "do-it yourself", for major medical expenses, isn't very realistic.

Plumbing is a small scale activity. You don't really need a national market in plumbing. I'm unlikely to use an Arizona plumber to re-plumb my house. State and local laws do reduce competition, but the business is such that would have to be draconian to almost eliminate it. Generally its a poor example to use for your argument (to the extent I think I understand your argument, you haven't really expressed it clearly)
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