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From the Hackernews guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." This post is clearly political and calls for universal health care have been around for decades.
This is an article trying to make an ideological case rather than to discern truth.
We should think of healthcare (not insurance, care) as our #1 national defense priority.
From the Hackernews guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." This post is clearly political and calls for universal health care have been around for decades.
Also not everything is only a cold and having someone who can check early for complications might save a lot of lives or prevent people from far worse conditions.
Last but not least: Access to mental health services like cognitive behavior therapy that replace or supplement only eating pills might help a lot of folks with addiction and raises productivity.
From the Hackernews guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." This post is clearly political and calls for universal health care have been around for decades.
Universal health care helps startups.
From the Hackernews guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." This post is clearly political and calls for universal health care have been around for decades.
Universal health care helps startups.
Morally, caring for the sick seems like the right thing to do, but it's like when I hear Bernie Sanders call for "free college education": he doesn't mean free, he means the wealthy subsidizing it for others.
Universal health care implies just distributed costs, but the focus should be on bringing down costs so the payments don't have to be so astronomical.
For example:
-Nurses could do a lot of things doctors do now, and for a lot less money, but MDs refuse to cede any authority.
-Medicare should be allowed to negotiate drug prices.
-Hospitals should pre-publish costs upfront before you accept care rather than saddle you with 100K in bills later on.
All of these things would help bring down cost but for political reasons we don't do them. Instead it's just about making wealthy people (which, for the record, I am not) pay more to cover for it.
Even if caring for the sick is just it shouldn't be accomplished just by a wealth transfer (to be fair, the ACA had some provisions to bring down the cost of care, but not nearly enough).
We should think of healthcare (not insurance, care) as our #1 national defense priority.
I get your sentiment, but I personally feel that education should be our #1 defense priority.
Universal health care is a euphemism for the poor and sick getting their medical care subsidized by the wealthy and healthy. Morally, caring for the sick seems like the right thing to do, but it's like when I hear Bernie Sanders call for "free college education": he doesn't mean free, he means the wealthy subsidizing it for others. Universal health care implies just distributed costs, but the focus should be on bring…
Nurse practitioners are actually increasingly common in the American health care system.