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Maybe this will be the turning point for universal healthcare. The current status quo is only barely tolerated, where many don't get any healthcare at all and m
by _bxg1 7y ago
Maybe this will be the turning point for universal healthcare. The current status quo is only barely tolerated, where many don't get any healthcare at all and most of what people do get is sub-par. If only a minority had it, there might finally be the political pressure to push through a total reform.
- dboreham 7y agoAlmost certainly an inflection point for "we don't need any government so the government can be made ineffective". Turns out people need government sometimes.
- jobigoud 7y agoI don't know about that. In Italy the system is almost at / past the saturation point and they are talking about ICU triage by age (no access to ICU over a certain age). Some people in the comments were taking this opportunity to criticize the universal healthcare model. In the sense that you contribute all your life and then you are denied treatment. I don't how they will do triage in the US if/when it becomes necessary but I think some people still think that money should play a factor.
- _bxg1 7y agoMeanwhile in the US some are being charged thousands of dollars for going and getting tested. Anyway, I wasn't talking about the care during the virus but the increased commonality of non-full-time employment, which in the US means you don't get health insurance at all.