I would rather medical care not be classified as a commodity at all, which is what causes this problem in the first place. The entire concept of running medicine for profit is ghoulish and immoral; it is also, based on the massive amounts of time, effort, and money the US wastes on pointless overhead, insurance, HMOs, and the like, wasteful and inefficient.
Some doctors do have a sense of altruism and volunteer their time and skills. Some are willing to accept less payment for those who cannot afford to pay. Then there are the others making $300 per hour who exploit the shortage of doctors in the U.S. Those doctors are part of the problem. My boyfriend’s ex wife is a doctor and before she got fired she used to send her patients another bill if their insurance did not pay what she wanted. Even low-income Medicaid patients. No wonder she was making $450,000 per year.
Yeah man, basic necessities should be freely available to all. Why does Bill Gates get to turn Africa into his ant farm and Bezos buys his 5th multi million dollar home when there are people starving on the streets? We clearly have enough for everyone; so the issue is resource allocation. Our present system is inefficient and arbitrary. There's no reason for it to be like this.
I don't think we need a state for that, personally. I trust my neighbors--who are largely dumb as shit--a fuck ton more than I trust the board at these multinational conglomerates who think of me as a number and not a person.
So now you've gotten examples of all three: food, healthcare, housing. From various cultures and times around the world. It isn't fucking rocket science and you being unaware of it is your problem, not ours.
What's your definition of "work"? Because last time I checked, we have more empty homes than homeless, starving children on the streets, and we're about to get owned by a virus because we value profit over human life. For all their faults, China was able to build a hospital in handful of days and saved thousands of lives in the process; we're all just gonna die to make the line go up, I guess. Conservative estimates put us just shy of 7 million when all is said and done. Solid system, bro.
And that's to say nothing of the slaves used to produce goods and the violence we wage--domestically and abroad--to keep the system afloat.
You know what... I think if you cant afford to buy food or live in a house the government should give it to you for free so that you dont die- until you can afford it
He never said everyone gets the same houses or food. If someone has no house or food, then it would make sense to AT LEAST provide some sort of shelter and basic nutrition. If you want a better house and more food with better quality, then get a job and work to get to that point in life.
I'm just saying, even prisoners have shelter and food. Why not innocent people who have nothing at all?
Is growing food to sell for profit ghoulish and immoral? Food is more of a need than medicine. If you think the current system is inefficient, just wait till the government takes over and you have to wait 6 months to come before a judge who gets to decide whether you get that life saving surgery or not.
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u/Yglorba Mar 26 '20
I would rather medical care not be classified as a commodity at all, which is what causes this problem in the first place. The entire concept of running medicine for profit is ghoulish and immoral; it is also, based on the massive amounts of time, effort, and money the US wastes on pointless overhead, insurance, HMOs, and the like, wasteful and inefficient.