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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gg cox who wrote (4967)	2/26/2008 2:02:10 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

In America you have the "tragedy of the commons."de Methinks you misunderstand "tragedy of the commons." We don't have health care as "commons" as you do. You are the one vulnerable to it. We have a decentralized version of it in that folks with insurance over-utilize and sub-optimize. But they risk "tragedy" only within their insurance pool, which is at least somewhat subject to market correction. They don't risk the whole country.

To: gg cox who wrote (4967)	2/26/2008 3:13:04 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

As a taxpayer do you feel that you have contributed to the nations roads and infrastructure? My taxes helped pay for them. I'm not sure what you point is. They are largely "the commons" because they aren't divided and given to individuals, the way health care treatments are. If a single specific example of a doctor performing one procedure (not one type of procedure, but one instance of that procedure) contributed to the health of the public at large, and if this was normally the case, whenever health care workers performed some procedure, than it would make sense to describe health care as the commons.