Here is one to think about:
Here is what we know: People drink a lot of bottled water these days even though water is almost free out of the faucet. The reasons they say they buy water in bottles are taste, fashion, health and convenience.
What they are really saying when they buy bottled water instead of using the free stuff is “the government can’t supply water good enough for me.” Here is the irony: Many of the people who don’t trust the government enough to drink their water are in favor letting the same government supply their health-care.
Health-care is a really complicated and expensive thing compared to water. I’m pretty sure that if the government can’t deliver water to meet your standards then the health-care supplied by the government won’t be satisfactory either.
Read my previous posts about water:
Tomorrow Tap Water
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Simon,
I ran the city water system in our small town for about twenty years supplying approximately one million gallons a day. I also owned a water system in a residential subdivision I developed. Both systems produced good water very cheaply, although the city job was government the controls were from the state and Federal EPD, I only saw them about every year or two. I sent monthly samples in for basic biological testing and yearly for a broader range of testing for chemicals, metals, pesticides ect.
That is my back ground, to address your point about the government water not being good enough is, in my opinion, incorrect. Most of the bottled water is public water from somewhere else. It might go through a process to declorinate but that is a problem too since the chlorine acts like a preservative in foods to keep the little guys from growing in it. The taste test is one that has interested me for some time and I’ve done a several blind taste tests with friends and I’ve never seen anyone consistently pick correctly.
My wife helped with the running of our private water system for years and she admits the public water is very safe, cheap and good. She still drinks bottled water though; style, convenient, I don’t know.
To make the leap to health care is interesting and the model from drinking water might work. Drinking water is provided by large to small governments, New York City to Richmond Hill. It is provided privately by companies like mine and it can be provided individually from a well. All the providers except the individual are subject to the same testing parameters. Your entire family can be on one account and you are charged a minimum if none is used and then pay for what you use. The cheap government health care might not be stylish or convenient but could be just fine for most needs, but you might want to grab a bottle of the designer health care if something out of the ordinary comes along.