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Motivate? Most definitely yes. Equip? Not at all. The American Dream (especially that pesky part about "opportunity") died long ago. If you're born with a chron
by endymi0n 8y ago
Motivate? Most definitely yes. Equip? Not at all. The American Dream (especially that pesky part about "opportunity") died long ago. If you're born with a chronic condition such as diabetes or your parents can't afford an education giving you the chance of a decently paying job, better go die.
That being said, just looking at the raw numbers I'd dare to say that health care in the US is just about as inconvenient and ineffective for rich people as it is for poor...
- blattimwind 8y agoThe American Dream reduced to eugenics steered by capitalistic market fitness?
- carlmr 8y ago>If you're born with a chronic condition such as diabetes or your parents can't afford an education giving you the chance of a decently paying job, better go die. This has always been the case. Most of these people just died before while today we have methods to keep them alive.
- SkyMarshal 8y agoRektang was being facetious with that comment, as tipped off by the “(ahem)”, implying the real reason we make services for poor inaccessible so they won’t be able to use them and thus drive up costs for them.
- rectang 8y agoThat's part of it. But there are other factors at work including political concerns -- for example in exempting rural majority-white counties in Kentucky from Medicaid work requirements while imposing them full-force on urban majority-black counties.