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I skimmed through some of this thread, so if this was mentioned, I apologize.
Fire protection and police protection, in addition to infrastructure, are completely different from health care, because health care is generally to protect the individual, while the others serve society as a whole.
The purpose of fire protection is not to prevent the destruction of one's personal property. It is to prevent the fire from growing and destroying additional property. Anyone that has ever read descriptions of major fires and how firefighters will destroy property as a preventive measure (fireblocks, etc.) knows that.
The purpose of police protection is not to protect individuals from crime, or to punish crime on behalf of individuals, but to prevent crime throughout the society so it does not expand and destroy the society.
Even infrastructure is for the good of society, because of allowing ease of movement for many in many different situations.
Unless one is discussing infectious/contagious disease, health care is about keeping protecting the individual, and assisting in the recovery of one person.
Maybe we should be asking how the government made it possible for the costs of health care to rise to the point where government-provided health care is a serious option in a free society?
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