our country has accepted the need for the government pvi public goods like dams,rafficights,poce, nationalefenseat doesn't cover all questions ofovernment involvementin ourives. whatreovernment's responsibilities to people who can't afford necessities ke housing, food or the subject of this instigation, health care? health care costs ha risen astromically over the past few decades. most of us cope withhese costhrough insurance. but those withou medical insunce face being turd away from emergency rooms or being dumped to public hospitals many miles away. low-income people go without adequate mecal services and have a shorter life expectancy as a result. health care used to be within one's means. but in the 1940s health care costs became more expensive as medical technology advanced and grew more specialized. the cost of medical care went beyond the means of most milies. the marketplace offered one solution-- private insurance coverage under the blue cross/ blue shield programs. by the end of world war ii only half the populaon was protected by hospital insurance. many, particularly the aged, the