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Permanently confused
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now health insurance would pass the litmus test for a commodity but I don't think health care passes. you can shop for different health ins. plans and make a decision based on price vs payment in the event of. I'm not sure where you want to go with this notion of commodity. Universal health care hmmmm... just think of the post office type employee sitting at the reception desk as you wisk into the Drs office and are told they are o a break or take a number. Thats what I envision universal health care to be. I don't want the lowest bidder working on ME. I can still go to a specialist and pay the oveage from what my povider pays without asking permission from a bean counter. Control costs!!!
I deliberately tried to look at healthcare as a commodity to stay away from the blurred debate on how it should be paid for. I would have liked a better word than "commodity" because it does have a definition in economics but I wanted to try and get discussion on healthcare as something that is offered for sale and which is purchased and I couldn't think of a better word.
If healthcare is provided to citizens at no cost to them does that mean it ceases to become a commodity (still can't think of a better word). Or is it still a commodity but with a different purchaser?