re: #585 EmmmieG

How many people do you shop for? I shop for seven.

That’s completely irrelevant. I’ve shopped for as many as twenty.

If price didn’t matter, I would shop at the Albertson’s and the Costco when I needed to. I do travel across town, and I very much check prices.

That was, in fact, my point. You were saying the only consideration was quality. It’s not. Even in your analogy, things are more complex than what you portrayed.

As for goods and services, that is a longer post, but it has been suggested, and I accept the idea that, there is no such thing as a good, because we never create matter. When you buy an apple, you are really buying the labor to grow the apple and get it to you. Neither the farmer or the trucker or the grocer created matter. They just changed it.

That’s metaphysical. There are differences between goods and services; differences in the way they act in an economy, at any rate.

Can you acknowledge that you’ve understood the following?

A) Wait times in Canada are bad compared to other Universal Health Care systems

B) We are the only market economy with government regulation in a first-world country that lacks Universal Health Care insurace

C) People without health care or with deductibles already have to act with consumer discretion when paying for health care

D) The calculus of cost vs. quality is different when talking about whether to buy a certain kind of bread or whether to trust a surgeon to keep you alive during a complicated procedure?