In theory, tax payer paid healthcare is a good idea. In theory.
A new mom died after giving birth at a Boston hospital. Was corporate greed to blame?
Spoiler: corporate greed was to blame. Private capitalist healthcare is a bad idea in theory -and in reality.
Edit: fun fact: the private equity firm that owns the hospital in this story is called Cerberus Capitol Management - named after the three headed hound that guards the gates of hell.
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Interesting take! I’d be curious to hear any thoughts on the Friedman doctrine as it relates to healthcare, and in broader terms of social services or just in general.
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Well now just hold on a gosh darned minute there Mr. Flippy Mcflopper, “A plumber should not be paying for your gender studies degree” and yet you want me to pay for treatment of people who gave themselves diabetes by eating too much heavily subsidized sugar?
Anyway if you are slowly coming around to democratic socialism thinking that’s great and I won’t tell anyone, but you should realize education is as important as healthcare to a functioning society.
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I just don’t think profit should be the core of the medical system due to inelastic demand.
I agree with you, comrade.
Germany was about 24%. So if you are willing to allow only 24% of people to have degrees then sure
Well I happen to believe that anything Germany can do, America can do better. We put man on the moon, did Germany do that? Why, I bet with a little American ingenuity and determination, we could get up to 60% of Americans to have degrees in gender studies.
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Is this post here because conservatives love seeing the disabled suffer?
It’s here because Canada is the only country in the world with tax payer paid healthcare. Wait, what? Most countries in the world have tax payer paid healthcare? I meant in North America. Wait, what? Mexico has tax payer paid healthcare too?
Many countries have it, Canada is just the poster child for how bad it can be. The UK is also infamous for the NHS, but MAID is another level of fucked up.
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Bro… like half the people I know have gone to Mexico for Healthcare they can’t get in the states because it’s unaffordable. When I lived in AZ I used to go to Mexico to get my prescriptions filled for like 1/30th the cost of the same meds in America.
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That’s probably because you only read fearmongering nationalist and racist media.
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Hah ha! Oh wait… this isn’t satire?
No, because liberals killed a disabled person with horrid policy. You got it backwards.
Explain how a single patient death is a valid argument against the thousands (probably more) of times privatized, profit-driven healthcare in the US has done that or worse.
When you look at who is preserving and enabling this situation, it’s congressional conservatives. Look at their voting records. Review C-SPAN coverage and watch it actually happen. You cannot manipulate reality with online arguments, only accept/reject it.
What you have right here is a straw man argument. A single case is anecdotal, the trend however is much more important.
The fact that maid exists is the problem
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Conservatives hate bodily autonomy.
Liberals want a government funded health care system paid for by government taking other people’s money and imprison everybody who won’t give their money to the government, they demand a ban to private healthcare, but when there’s no money for government to provide thorough treatment, they want people executed or killed off to save government money.
They say it’s better for all people to suffer than for some individuals to do well.
This is more like, your take on the situation but not what people other than conservatives (basically everyone different from you that you’ve lumped into the term “liberal”) believe.
I don’t know anyone believes what this dude is peddling.
Fun fact: The US healthcare system costs more IN TAXES than every other country’s. And then you have to pay exorbitant amounts per month, and even more when you get sick, on top.
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You hear that everyone? The mod doesn’t spend a lot on healthcare so it’s not a fact that this country spends more than any other and gets less. As a healthy person, your wants for cheaper healthcare are unfounded. “The system works
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My wife’s T1 diabetic. We pay to keep her alive. Go ahead, let’s hear your bullshit response.
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I know.
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