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> I don't see universal healthcare as having the same safety-net effect. Why not? People work shit jobs solely for health insurance. People need healthcare and
by ianleeclark 8y ago
> I don't see universal healthcare as having the same safety-net effect.
Why not? People work shit jobs solely for health insurance. People need healthcare and will do demeaning, exploitative things to get it. We should aim to decrease exploitation of people and having something along the lines of Medicare for all or single payer insurance would accomplish that goal.
> Other than stabilizing prices, it would only be a situation where the healthy support the sick.
Sounds like insurance. Mutual aid ought be a founding principle of any society.
- woodpanel 8y ago> Mutual aid ought be a founding principle of any society. The fact that the US has the same principles already in place (MedicAid, MediCare, veterans...) shows that it is not a matter of your society's helpfulness but a matter of your society's institutions that block reform out of self-interest.