Actually Gruss, you are confusing two questions in that debate. Admittedly, they were asked back to back. The first asked about it being a commodity. The second asked about it being a privilege, right or responsibility.
Questions/answers roughly half way down: http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/debates/transcripts/second-presidential-debate.html Judah On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Gruss Gott<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dana wrote: >> And I still say people don't comparison shop for medical services. They pick >> a doctor based on location, specialties and insurance. > > So Dana, your post bounced back into my head and on a whim I just > looked up commodity on Wikipedia. Interestingly it defines commodity > as this: > > "Commoditization occurs as a goods or services market loses > differentiation across its supply base, often by the diffusion of the > intellectual capital necessary to acquire or produce it efficiently." > > Surgery, it could easily be argued is therefore a commodity: the > intellectual capital necessary to provide the service is diffuse, in > many cases on the internet. > > But then I remembered! This question was asked during the > presidential debates!! > > Q: Do you believe health care should be treated as a commodity? > > OBAMA: blah, blah, blah, boo hoo, sob story, *** I think it should be > a right *** > > MCCAIN: blah, blah, blah, small business, government sucks, *** I > think its a responsibility *** > > Now this is pretty interesting because the question was do you think > it's a commodity and instead we got "right" and "responsibility" > > My answer? > > It's all three > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:299756 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
