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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (23371)3/6/2012 12:41:42 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Providing a useful service, or alternatively making a profit but we are taking about non-profits here, is adding value.

Then we are simply using the term differently. When you consider the added value of a magnolia vs an elm, they both produce shade. Shade is a value but not an added value. Magnolias have flowers in the spring. That is an added value.

Even monopolies that provide poor service typically don't last, unless they are protected by the government.

Any monopoly that provides a necessary service like a utility will necessarily end up protected by the government.

In any case I don't see any real risk of a Catholic hospital monopoly. It just isn't going to happen.

It is already the case in some places. And don't say that people can just move elsewhere...
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