(06-13-2017, 05:17 AM)EricC85 Wrote:

(06-12-2017, 10:16 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: No, we require that public education serve all people. It is not based on S and D, it's based on universal provision.

Universal provision doesn't cancel out the natural laws of supply and demand. We require everyone to have healthcare now yet its painfully obvious healthcare is still subject to the same supply and demand laws as before.

Actually, the healthcare mess and public education are not the same at all. Public education does not require the individual consumer to purchase anything, merely to participate through attendance. Something that everyone is given regardless of ability to pay does not require any type of individual demand, therefore S and D does not apply at that level. Healthcare would be the same if we had universal coverage, but we don't, so it's not. And we don't require everyone to have insurance, we merely fine them if they don't. The individual mandate doesn't exist.

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