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Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by footy »

jrjeksjd8d wrote: post #99
jgalt212 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The UK has socialized healthcare, and that's not going so well. Societies excel at stuff they prioritize. Pretty much all societies don't prioritize other people's tragedies.

The NHS is suffering because of cuts from conservative vultures. They're following the playbook of American conservatives like Grover Norquist: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

Same as their playbook here in Canada. It's disgusting.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by apothegm »

Tade0 wrote: post #113
superultra wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The United States is the wealthiest nation on the planet according to Forbes, richer than the subsequent three nations combined. It’s a tragedy that our own citizens are not the direct be beneficiaries of that wealth. I think a lot about the scene in Star Trek IV when McCoy is in a hospital and says “what is this the dark ages?” Gofundme is like a kafkaesque tragic absurdity that - hopefully - will be looked at as an…

> The United States is the wealthiest nation on the planet according to Forbes, richer than the subsequent three nations combined. This framing by Forbes (any many others really) is insidious because it doesn't take into account the population number and how unevenly wealth is spread. For instance, Switzerland is not a huge economy - around the 20th in the world, but its citizens enjoy an extremely high quality of li…

Population size is usually included in those calculations. It’s typically GDP per capita.

But I couldn’t agree more that the inequality and social safety net (or lack thereof) make the numbers deeply disconnected from QoL. Which I believe is the whole point.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by bentcorner »

philipallstar wrote: post #59
simondotau wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody is advocating for eliminating a market-based system. My country (Australia) has both single-payer and a market-based private healthcare system.

You can imagine how that system, like most, is actually getting its medical advancements from the US.

This doesn't make any sense. If you make a thing, the price you set for selling that thing in a country has little to do with where you happen to be living when you made that thing.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by squigz »

pm90 wrote: post #106

Im inclined to blame the US healthcare system. It looks like a gofundme was setup to pay for her cancer treatment. A sensible system a) wouldn’t need patients to pay for treatment and b) might have caught it earlier through regular screening

Another one of these? Jeez.

Whether you're right or not, it doesn't matter - this is not the time or place to bring this up.

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