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healthcare is something that should be like water.

• kmfrk 13y ago
  Even drinking water is subject to regulations, though. Nothing is ever that simple. :)
  • mikeash 13y ago
    "Even"? Drinking water is heavily regulated for good reasons. It's also extremely cheap. There are a lot of other examples of highly regulated industries providing cheap services, something I wonder of others are aware of when they talk about the need to reduce regulation to cut costs. Health care as a regulated public utility like electricity, water, and phone lines doesn't seem like a bad model to shoot for.
    • brazzy 13y ago
      Except that I literally cannot find two industries that are less comparable in any meaningful way: mass produced commodity goods on one side, complex and neccesarily individual services provided by highly trained and specialized professionals on the other.
    • Noelkd 13y ago
      <3