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It will be easier to introduce basic income in certain parts of Europe. The US will be an altogether different challenge; for basic income to be feasible in th
by noir-york 10y ago
It will be easier to introduce basic income in certain parts of Europe.
The US will be an altogether different challenge; for basic income to be feasible in the US, there needs to be proper health care reform. I see that very difficult to happen anytime soon, even making non-competes unenforceable is gonna be hard let alone introducing a national health service.
- kwhitefoot 10y agoMy US colleagues tell me that if you are genuinely poor in the US then healthcare is already de facto free. I suspect that it might not be quite the same degree of care as someone who's insurance company is paying though.
- lovich 10y agoEh, you can get emergency care or go to an emergency room as a doctor and not get turned away, but the bill still follows you. Additionally getting any sort of preventative medicine is basically impossible. When I was poor right out of college I had health insurance and was still denied coverage on a prescribed medication because it was available over the counter. Even though the OTC price was 3 times my copay for prescribed medications. When you are poor that means you just don't get any healthcare until you in a pretty bad way
- kwhitefoot 10y agoThat really highlights the problem of getting information from someone who has only second hand information themselves. I'm glad you put me right, but sad to see that what, I think, most of us Europeans believe about US medical care appears to be true: that it is cruel and unfair.