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Single Payer would go a long way towards making our healthcare system non-excludable and non-rivalrous. What we have, the MIDDLEMEN which the post complains about, are rent seekers.


No it wouldn’t. That makes no sense. You have no idea what “excludable” and “rivalrous” mean. Please read a few Wikipedia articles.


Maybe you can rephrase in a way us peasants understand your point as well without a dictionary?


Excludable = you can exclude people from benefiting from it. (E.g., Fixing global warming is not excludable while temperature control in your own house is.)

Rivalrous = more people getting it leads to less for others. (E.g., Software is not rivalrous, but hardware is.)


I wanted a rephrased statement, not a dictionary extract. Because I still have no clue what your piont is.


My point is just that the words this guy is using have commonly-accepted meanings and he’s using them wrong.


Good to know.




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