> Refrigerators of a given brand and model are basically identical, not so health treatments. Heh, wonder if they would take the following compromise: no publi

> Refrigerators of a given brand and model are basically identical, not so health treatments. Heh, wonder if they would take the following compromise: no public healthcare option, but medical patents are hereby abolished. You know, getting the government out of healthcare... Not that I really advocate for this policy, but I mean, libertarians are not ok with being "coerced"[1] to provide medical treatment, but are ok with being "coerced" to not manufacture life saving treatments because someone else owns the IP to them, usually standing on the shoulders of decades of tax funded university research. [1] scare quotes because I believe there is a difference between taking a particular individual and actually forcing them at gunpoint to be a public doctor, and simply taxing people into paying for a public health system that is attractive enough that enough people chose to work for it of their own free will (e.g. the NHS)