Comment on: Is Health Care a Public Good?

Bigthink — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:10:44 +0100

It seems many people's perspective on what is a public good, what should be funded by society, and what qualifies as expensive tends to be skewed based on the individual's ability to buy what they need. Taking a purely capitalist's view ... it is a simple matter of survival of the fittest ... the economically fittest.

A basic doctor's office visit often costs $200... before any tests or medicines. As more and more of the formerly middle class are pushed into being the working poor, with rising energy prices and its associated costs for food and other fundamentals of life, and are unable to afford any kind of health care, we will have a large outcry for help. The cost of health care has far outpaced the average individual's ability to afford it ... even for many with some form of insurance.

Though we may debate how health care should be handled, it is far too fundamental an aspect to the well being of the society's sustainability to be left in the dysfunctional state it currently exists in the USA.

Comment on: Is Health Care a Public Good?

Bigthink — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:50:24 +0100

I firmly believe that a healthy society is a productive society. I don't understand how government dosen't see that. Perhaps they don't want to becasue they would be dishing out more money to its citizens rather than themselves?

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