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Would you not call the health care situation a fundamental problem? A large portion of society is at constant risk of financial ruin if they have a serious illn

Would you not call the health care situation a fundamental problem? A large portion of society is at constant risk of financial ruin if they have a serious illness, a lot of of people stay in their jobs mainly to keep their insurance which reduces entrepreneurial activity and a lot of people can’t afford any health care. I would call that a problem that other countries already have solved. I don’t like it when people are told how good they have it compared to other countries or people in the past. It sounds very condescending. This line is also never used to tell wealthy executives or shareholders how good they have it and they should maybe stop trying to concentrate wealth on themselves. Only the little guy gets to hear this.

roenxi 7y ago
A large portion of society is at constant risk of death if they have a serious illness. The range of things people can recover from in 2019 is astounding. There are always going to be good uses for resources poured into healthcare. It is, without exaggeration, a bottomless pit of ways to spend money. The US does a terrible job of managing healthcare but that is not a fundamental problem; it is horrible but superficial. They could probably get double the quality for the money spent, or halve spending for the same outcome or something. However, there will always be something else needed in healthcare. The goalpost will shift as it has many times before. > I don’t like it when people are told how good they have it compared to other countries or people in the past. It sounds very condescending. This line is also never used to tell wealthy executives or shareholders ... In my post that you responded to I am advocating leaving executives and shareholders penniless, ruined and subject to lawsuits. That is what I wanted to happen after '08. Maybe I was too subtle in my allusion.
- pas 7y ago
  The fact that basic medicine (insulin) is just left to be provided by the not-really-free market is very telling. And this is strictly a problem of lack of imagination, political will and compromise. But that's just the symptoms of a deeper festering problem, namely that of increasing political polarization.

roenxi 7y ago

A large portion of society is at constant risk of death if they have a serious illness. The range of things people can recover from in 2019 is astounding. There are always going to be good uses for resources poured into healthcare. It is, without exaggeration, a bottomless pit of ways to spend money. The US does a terrible job of managing healthcare but that is not a fundamental problem; it is horrible but superficial. They could probably get double the quality for the money spent, or halve spending for the same outcome or something. However, there will always be something else needed in healthcare. The goalpost will shift as it has many times before. > I don’t like it when people are told how good they have it compared to other countries or people in the past. It sounds very condescending. This line is also never used to tell wealthy executives or shareholders ... In my post that you responded to I am advocating leaving executives and shareholders penniless, ruined and subject to lawsuits. That is what I wanted to happen after '08. Maybe I was too subtle in my allusion.

pas 7y ago
The fact that basic medicine (insulin) is just left to be provided by the not-really-free market is very telling. And this is strictly a problem of lack of imagination, political will and compromise. But that's just the symptoms of a deeper festering problem, namely that of increasing political polarization.