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If the United States of America - the wealthiest society the world has ever known - can't even provide healthcare for its citizens, what hope is there that, in
by te_chris 9y ago
If the United States of America - the wealthiest society the world has ever known - can't even provide healthcare for its citizens, what hope is there that, in a world where all profits accure to the owners of robots (capital), anyone other than these people get any of the benefit? History is not exactly rich with examples of such.
- valuearb 9y agoThe US obvuisky does provide healthcare for its citizens, we are just in a messy argument over who should pay for it. Reagan mandated over 40 years that hospitals had to offer care to everyone.
- jmanderley 9y agoBeing able to visit the emergency room and having to pay whatever they want isn't remotely the same as "provide healthcare for its citizens".
- webnrrd2k 9y agoHospitals may provide emergency care, but it's a poor substiture for proper long-term care with a primary care physician. It's also a horrible system for dealing with homeless and mentally ill patients, not to mention the chance of going bankrupt, and the overall effectiveness/ cost of the system vs. the benefits. Saying it's only about who pays is not really doing justice to the problems of the American medical system.
- bobbington 9y agoDude this is insane. America provides better healthcare to the poor than the richest got 200 years ago. Don't believe me? Antibiotics are cheap. The thing people don't get about robots is that it will drive the price of everything to so low it's practically free. When Watson can diagnose 99% of diseases from your smartphone, healthcare will be so cheap it's ridiculous