> We declare "healthcare" to be a public, common good and completely socialize it. Like roads and fire departments. 1. Lots of places have private roads withou

> We declare "healthcare" to be a public, common good and completely socialize it. Like roads and fire departments. 1. Lots of places have private roads without much trouble. France's autoroutes are perhaps the most famous example. 2. Many of the world's most successful universal healthcare systems are run at least partially privately. The first point of contact one has with the NHS, for example, is through a general practitioner via medical practice, all of whom are private businesses (free at the point of use). I don't see why you think a hodgepodge of private and public, as exists in many places already, would be such a problem; I totally fail to see how making everything completely private would be a better solution than that. You'd end up with horrendous lemon-dropping.