You forgot Healthcare, healthcare should be free too :)
> You forgot Healthcare, healthcare should be free too :)
Done properly, socialized healthcare isn’t a bad thing: I was pretty glad of it when I had my first heart-attack scare.
The problem with Healthcare is that there is still plenty of risk surrounding its provision. Taking risk should be rewarded by making profit because taking risk is often really expensive.
What ends up happening is that Healthcare gets provided at a really basic level (the risk-free bits) and then everyone complains about not having free access to the risky bits. That is why Healthcare is and will continue to be a bottomless pit into which to pour money. People just won’t understand why Grandma can’t have her life-saving procedure: nevermind that it costs two million dollars per and fails three times out of ten.
Electricity, gas, public transport, telecommunications — they aren’t in the same league as healthcare. Nobody ever went broke providing a utility service once all the kinks were sorted out.