Yeah, it definitely falls under the same umbrella of arguments for and against things such as school vouchers. While I posed the questions here, I actually don't believe that blockchain will be any sort of panacea for the market failures that are borne out of public goods.

I've added some more detail to that answer and further use cases in a second post here:
https://steemit.com/blockchain/@bdeely/what-if-we-used-blockchain-for-part-2-funding-public-goods