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You may be thinking of public goods, like healthcare, fire departments, etc. I advocate government provided universal healthcare. That cost is just table stake
by specialist 6y ago
You may be thinking of public goods, like healthcare, fire departments, etc.
I advocate government provided universal healthcare. That cost is just table stakes for a civil society.
Insurance is more properly relegated for elective decisions, where a person's interests are not (yet) universally shared, and they want to hedge their risks.
- jen20 6y agoThis is perhaps a rather pedantic point, but do you really mean government _provided_ healthcare, or simply government _funded_ healthcare? Very few countries have the former (the UK famously does), and many societies would be considered civil have the latter.
- specialist 6y agoI'm ambivalent about the implementation, who signs the paycheck. It's the government's job to lift the floor, set standards, drive progress. There's "no one size fits all." We will always need room for innovation, experimentation. Sometimes top down, like ratcheting performance standards. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/5/31/18646906/climate-change-california-energy-efficiency https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/5/31/1864690... Sometimes bottom up, like the neighborhood buurtzorg clinics in the Netherlands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buurtzorg_Nederland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buurtzorg_Nederland Because better is better.