Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits
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#2It's almost as though sick people are less productive or something.
Did we really need someone to tell us this?
Re: Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits
#3I don't oppose introducing universal healthcare in the US so much as my concern is that once its in place there is no going back and we can't enter it by slapping together a bill that no one has read and pass it using loopholes in the normal process.
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#4Just going to throw this out there. Non universal health care is analogous to half the roads in a city being toll roads. Society can still function and you can mostly get to where you're going but it's not close to efficient.
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#5We should think of healthcare (not insurance, care) as our #1 national defense priority.
Re: Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits
#6When a person gets a life threatening disease they ought not worry about whether or not their treatment will leave their family in penury. This is especially so in a nation as wealthy as the U.S. The American healthcare system is immoral and I hope it drastically changes.
Americans need to change their underlying notions of what it means to be a society. An author was once made fun of for suggesting that it takes a village to raise a child. When it comes to public funding for public goods we tend to worry about some poor person getting something they don’t deserve. The go it alone I’ve got mine, fuck you attitude is unhealthy.
Until we change our collective view in what the purpose of a government and society is things won’t change significantly. Even so called champions of progressivism in the U.S. Senate voted against allowing the importation of medicine from Canada. It seems the public interest is subordinate to private interests and often times with immoral consequences.
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#7It's almost as though sick people are less productive or something. Did we really need someone to tell us this?
Did we really need someone to tell us this?
Well, yes. Otherwise, we'd expect there to be universal healthcare!
Re: Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits
#8Just going to throw this out there. Non universal health care is analogous to half the roads in a city being toll roads. Society can still function and you can mostly get to where you're going but it's not close to efficient.
Why are toll roads not close to efficient? In my state the toll roads are by far the nicest best maintained roads and the tolls are extremely reasonable and collected without having to slow down or stop at a booth.
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#9From 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.
Re: Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits
#10When a person gets a life threatening disease they ought not worry about whether or not their treatment will leave their family in penury. This is especially so in a nation as wealthy as the U.S. The American healthcare system is immoral and I hope it drastically changes. Americans need to change their underlying notions of what it means to be a society. An author was once made fun of for suggesting that it takes a v…
If you think the private healthcare system is immoral, you should take a look at the 100% government ran healthcare system that is the VA. You literally couldn't make up worse things than their administration has been caught doing with little or to consequence.
If the VA is the best the US government can do, with some of the most sympathetic citizens, then it is incapable of doing better than our private system.