Perhaps this is just me, but I would much, much sooner ride free public transportation in my spare time than check myself into a free hospital. Moreover, hospi

Perhaps this is just me, but I would much, much sooner ride free public transportation in my spare time than check myself into a free hospital. Moreover, hospitals really ought to be a perfect example of a thing that's harmless to offer in excess and hence can be made a free public good. All it takes is for the triage process to do a correct Bayesian evaluation of your medical history — that is, to take note of the fact that you are known to have shown up at hospital every week and nothing has ever been found to be wrong — and then treat you only for what you are likely to have.