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Governments exist to give everyone a basic set required services. I think even the biggest free market/ small government advocate would agree that access to cle
by robryan 13y ago
Governments exist to give everyone a basic set required services. I think even the biggest free market/ small government advocate would agree that access to clean drinking water is one of those services.
- boomlinde 13y agoIf you dismiss some things the government provides as being unnatural, you are drawing a very crooked line of "naturality" if you somehow manage to include clean drinking water.
- Crake 13y agoBut access to college and health care isn't??
- robryan 13y agoWell, that depends on the government. All the way from the very basic necessities to keep citizens alive to a guaranteed minimum income and full health, education and other services. I don't think that there is any right level for all countries.
- Domenic_S 13y agoAccess to health care gets conflated with some universal or Obamacare-type system, though. Case in point: my grandparents are on medicare. They pay basically nothing for it. One of them just had bypass surgery and the other a knee replacement. Cost to them: $0. We pretty much have universal access healthcare in the US before the Obamacare stuff if you go through the system.