Abstrakt
By outlining some of the difficulties which markets as well as state provision present I argue that there needs to be a balance between a universal provision of healthcare and capitalist functioning to ensure that the benefits of both are not lost and negatives of both are minimised. I thus argue that a system where through taxation the state contracts private competing suppliers to supply services which the market doesn’t satisfactorily supply on its own is a plausible compromise which accepts redistribution and regulation but at the same time preserves the benefits of capitalism.