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Interesting. Health care is a problem in capitalism, and this is another variable. I wonder if there should be a distinction between how the hospital is funded
by aeharding 11y ago
Interesting. Health care is a problem in capitalism, and this is another variable.
I wonder if there should be a distinction between how the hospital is funded, just like how public schools cannot have a religious affiliation. But I don't know enough about hospital/health care funding to form an opinion here.
- nugget 11y agoI think capitalism just reflects how the red blankets are allocated in this case but the underlying story is about subtle inequalities that have always existed since the big bang. Presumably there would be red blankets in every system, e.g. in Cuba or Soviet Russia the party members had red blankets too. If you make the hospital completely independent of any outside influences and mandate no favoritism of any kind, there are still 'friends and family' of employees and so forth. Ultimately our best hope for narrowing inequality seems to come from technology and technology enabled processes that are simply unable to discriminate. If a future MRI machine is invented that can read its own scans as well as a top 10% radiologist, then every patient benefits and the subtle discriminatory tendencies inherent in human nature are rendered obsolete.