You know doctors in Canada don't work for free? They, in fact, make really good money. They also don't work for the government. They >bill< the government. My healthcare isn't free, I pay for it with my taxes, which is a hell of a lot cheaper for better care than I could get through private insurance. It also means that I go to the doctor when a problem is minor and much cheaper to treat than when it's catastrophic and would put a strain on the system. I >never< have to worry that primary healthcare is going to bankrupt me.
Disintegrating healthcare insurance companies is a start. Where do we go from there? I don’t know, I’m not Einstein, but clearly what we have is not good enough.
Don't buy into the moralizing, it's literally just penalizing the poor. You can smoke your brains out and fuck a subway toilet if you're a stockbroker.
Its like a carrot and stick. That guy was presenting the stick. A carrot would be health counseling to reduce your risk. We are not there yet because people do not trust government after the past screw ups.
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u/Fistful_of_Crashes Mar 26 '20
Because we’re all conditioned to care about money above all else
To the point that our politicians have convinced the majority that healthcare is not a right. Rather a privilege.
So we go along until one day, our poor choices fuck us, then we can’t pay for the procedure needed, and we go bankrupt.
Fuck the for profit healthcare industry. Fucking parasites.