[CalChris]

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.

[yaacov]

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

[hef19898]

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

[cooljoseph]

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.)

[hef19898]

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

[yaacov]

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

[CalChris]

Good to know.