(April 9, 2015 at 9:42 pm)Heywood Wrote: First, Healthcare is a commodity whether want it to be or not. It is human labor and human labor is a commodity. Would you have done that job for free? If healthcare isn't a commodity to be sold, you should be willing to provide it whenever it is needed without any compensation whatsoever.
Simple response: “Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community.”
Consequently healthcare is not a commodity but a service.
Sum ergo sum