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Heard for the first time in a while, the other day: "Health is wealth." The U.S. economy has far more wealth than needed to provide everyone in the country (a
by pasbesoin 10y ago
Heard for the first time in a while, the other day: "Health is wealth."
The U.S. economy has far more wealth than needed to provide everyone in the country (at least, everyone who elects to participate) basic, quality healthcare. Not necessarily advanced-age end-of-life spendorama experiences, but far enhanced opportunity to remain or regain health and related quality of life during the majority of living years.
There could still be plenty of economic inequality. But we could vastly diminish an unnecessary suffering as well as the economic stress of health burdens.
If we can't go that far. If we can't, in action, live up to the basic morals most of us claim to have...
These people do not need nor, in my opinion, deserve to get any richer, until we've solved this.
We don't all have to be billionaires, to have quality of life. But we do need health. And THAT is something we can fix, right now. If we have the will.