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That low ranking is related to the first thing you're saying. It's what drives advocates of national health care, not the idea that nobody will die. When peopl
by ewzimm 10y ago
That low ranking is related to the first thing you're saying. It's what drives advocates of national health care, not the idea that nobody will die.
When people are talking about deaths of people who can't afford health care, they're talking about people who don't have the resources to ever get care, the people who don't catch things in the early stages when they're easily treatable and find out too late that their condition has become terminal. The point of national health care isn't to eliminate all treatable deaths no matter how expensive, it's to improve care and accessibility so that it's in a place that aligns with the resources society could reasonably support. When we look at much poorer nations being able to provide much better care, we see that there's a problem that needs to be addressed. That's what people are talking about, not eliminating all deaths.
- SilasX 10y agoThose are all great, subtle distinctions to make. They're also completely different arguments from, and not at all conveyed by "lol poor people die from lacking health care in the US but not Europe".