Quote:I agree, it shouldn't be, but in reality what isn't a commodity? Education, Housing, Electricity, Water, all these things are vital to society and they're looked at as commodities, why is healthcare different?

 

Just because it's a commodity doesn't mean we should or that we do deny it to people, the poor for example are able to get treated at hospitals and the bill is figured out later. Now that creates problems with people abusing the system sure but the reality is abuse of the system was our greatest problem. Instead of figuring out ways to deal with or eliminate abuse we created a bigger system that will be harder to control fraud.

Abuse is always the problem how to deal with and minimize them is the big question.

 

Electricity and water I would argue are not really treated like commodities. They are highly regulated so as to not allow gouging and other abuses by the providers of the things deemed essential for living in a modern society. I see no reason why healthcare and education could not be treated the same way. 

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