Zach Newton, Introduction, Question 6

One passage that I found to be illuminating in the Introductory paragraph of Naked Economics was the couple of paragraphs about health care reform. This passage revealed to me that health care questions are not as easily answered as they may seem to be. The example offered in the book is the "periodic campaign to mandate that insurance companies cover the cost of two nights in the hospital for women who have delivered babies, rather than just one" (xxi). This question is an interesting case of making many child bearing women more comfortable by allowing an extended stay at the hospital, but it would also mean disallowing some lower income families from affording insurance at all. To me, this does not seem like the simple "good of the many outweighs the good of a few" type of question. Instead it seems to be a comfort of the many and necessity for the few question.