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Choice is a luxury when a huge percent of Americans don’t have access to healthcare or would go bankrupt if they used it. Same thing with affordable housing, ed
by theslurmmustflo 7y ago
Choice is a luxury when a huge percent of Americans don’t have access to healthcare or would go bankrupt if they used it. Same thing with affordable housing, education, and countless other services.
- legitster 7y ago>Choice is a luxury It shouldn't be!
- theslurmmustflo 7y agoI’m talking about the reality we face right now using the example of healthcare, which tons of Americans don’t have access to. Which I feel is a bigger problem than the problem of choice. Healthcare also being a public good that almost every other developed country handles at a national level with greater success (life expectancy/ childhood mortality, other major kpis) and far lower costs.
- 0x262d 7y agohealthcare should really be the nail in the coffin of the efficiency argument. the reason it's more obvious that it works better provided publicly is basically that it's way more extensively studied and the US is such a great negative example of how privatization destroys it even in the middle of extreme wealth.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoWe have 12-13 years of free education for everybody. And virtually all Americans live in housing.