Did Rome suffer from more fires than similar cities in that era? Something tells me it's the other way around... On average, group behavior can best be studied

Did Rome suffer from more fires than similar cities in that era? Something tells me it's the other way around... On average, group behavior can best be studied when assuming average humans have selfish, rational motivations. It's possible to create incentives in the public sector but you can imagine it would be much like academia -- a focus on pushing out high volumes of papers, getting grants, and theoretical/laboratory breakthroughs without any consideration of bringing them to market. Most of the breakthroughs in medicine used by countries around the world were invented in the US and originally held by US companies -- the US has effectively subsidized and enabled foreign socialized healthcare systems by being a global exporter of medical technology. So the US adopting a state run medical system would likely have an interesting effect on the global medicine market, in a way much different than any other country (i.e. a massive reduction in global progress). Most people advocating that seem to think the US system is a failed example of a 'free marketplace,' which is an embarrassingly incorrect belief but a product of significant misinformation littering both sides of the argument these days. The US healthcare system is in most ways further from a free market than that of any other country I know of. First of all, we have universal healthcare but only for the elderly (medicare) and the poor (medicaid), which creates an artificial demand imbalance that pumps the prices up for non-participants in those programs, which is even worse than a singular universal system. Then look at the ridiculously overpowered IP law in the US (especially in pharmaceuticals), the oppressive occupational licensing (harder to become a doctor here than anywhere else so naturally we have an artificial shortage of people qualified to do mostly very basic things), FDA-imposed pharmaceutical monopolies, inability to opt-in to experimental treatment (which also means malpractice insurance is always a significant expense), amongst others. This is not a free market, and even if we adopted universal healthcare tomorrow, it does not fix all the other problems listed.