Welcome to being a liberal-tarian. We can support solving externalities (like your free triage does) without saying that the government should run it, etc. Publ

Welcome to being a liberal-tarian. We can support solving externalities (like your free triage does) without saying that the government should run it, etc. Public funding of open / competitive systems can be the optimal solution to problems like this - just how roads and utilities are built (both of which are pretty reasonable the older the industry). I.e. Internet has way higher margins than natural gas service because we haven't gotten internet monopolies regulated as well as natural gas b/c the latter has been around for longer and has been refined pretty well for the end-user's needs.