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[The Magistrate]

Properly speaking, they are not even remotely a part of health care, no more than a tummy-tuck and a set of hair plugs would be.

The fact is that no one in need of medical intervention is a customer in the normal sense of the word. A person in need of medical services is always under duress, facing some combination of pain and threat to life or limb. In such circumstances people do not make 'informed rational market choices' and indeed, in most cases, they are not allowed to to by emergency and medical personnel.

That a government single-payer system would cost money is hardly news, nor an earthshaking revelation. It is something everyone knows. The benefit of such a system is that the costs can be borne out of general revenues, the ordinary receipt of taxes by the national government.