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wankingisgay on scored.co
1 year ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
When most people cant affort basic healthcare or emergencies get them bankrupt, the system is beyond shit.
Public healthcare worked just fine in most eu countries up until greed took over and some people wanted to get rich through private hospitals and private insurance.
Private hospitals artificially inflate the prices and insurance has to cover it, which leads to a cascade of ever increasing prices.
The only thing us is better at is care for the 0.0001% rich that can throw everything in it. But that is at the expense of 99.9999%
1 year ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
healthcare is not some fixed asset to be divided by you or anyone else. it is also not a right, because in the US, there only negative rights (the government cannot do X...) and conditional affirmative rights (the government can only do X if they also give you Y). unconditional affirmative rights (like healthcare) are a mess on a long enough timeline because it requires someone else to be enslaved to provide you that affirmative right. the only way to stave off literal enslavement is to keep running prices up to get more and more people to do something they otherwise wouldn't want to do.
Public healthcare worked just fine in most eu countries up until greed took over and some people wanted to get rich through private hospitals and private insurance.
Private hospitals artificially inflate the prices and insurance has to cover it, which leads to a cascade of ever increasing prices.
The only thing us is better at is care for the 0.0001% rich that can throw everything in it. But that is at the expense of 99.9999%
All in all a shit system.