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No. It has nothing to do with politics. It is a labor and economics problem that I don’t see the pandemic solving for. Few people in the US who can easily affor
by austincheney 7y ago
No. It has nothing to do with politics. It is a labor and economics problem that I don’t see the pandemic solving for. Few people in the US who can easily afford health care are willing to advocate for universal health care at their own expense simply because it’s too expensive. This is a problem with health care in the US specifically.
Health care in the US is excessively expensive due to intentional market inefficiencies. There is a lot of research on this. Simply speaking the industry employs too many people. Consider the number of people employed due to medical insurance, medical equipment industry, pharmaceutical industry, medical administration experts, regulation, and so forth. Unless you are willing to kill a large segment of commercial medicine and put many people out of work this industry will remain expensive, and so long as it remains this expensive a universal medical service simply isn’t going to happen.
In the meantime the closest thing to universal medicine in the US is the VA.