The obvious counterexamples are natural monopolies, e.g. water, roads and I would argue healthcare.
That requires argument. Notice that the standard argument for water and roads doesn't apply to healthcare.
That requires argument
Raikoth/Yvain argues it better than I can
Notice that the standard argument for water and roads doesn't apply to healthcare.
Which arguments do you mean? The obvious ones to me are economies of scale, limited resources and price control which seems to apply.
Could you clarify, are you arguing free market is always superior to state action, or that it sometimes is and sometimes isn't but healthcare isn't one of the latter cases?
In line with the results of the poll here, a thread for discussing politics. Incidentally, folks, I think downvoting the option you disagree with in a poll is generally considered poor form.
1.) Top-level comments should introduce arguments; responses should be responses to those arguments.
2.) Upvote and downvote based on whether or not you find an argument convincing in the context in which it was raised. This means if it's a good argument against the argument it is responding to, not whether or not there's a good/obvious counterargument to it; if you have a good counterargument, raise it. If it's a convincing argument, and the counterargument is also convincing, upvote both. If both arguments are unconvincing, downvote both.
3.) A single argument per comment would be ideal; as MixedNuts points out here, it's otherwise hard to distinguish between one good and one bad argument, which makes the upvoting/downvoting difficult to evaluate.
4.) In general try to avoid color politics; try to discuss political issues, rather than political parties, wherever possible.
If anybody thinks the rules should be dropped here, now that we're no longer conducting a test - I already dropped the upvoting/downvoting limits I tried, unsuccessfully, to put in - let me know. The first rule is the only one I think is strictly necessary.
Debiasing attempt: If you haven't yet read Politics is the Mindkiller, you should.