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Universal healthcare is accomplished in many countries, so how does it not have a solution? Yes, it's a black hole for money - that's my entire point, it's not
by gotostatement 6y ago
Universal healthcare is accomplished in many countries, so how does it not have a solution? Yes, it's a black hole for money - that's my entire point, it's not profitable, but it can be addressed with more money. No system is perfect, but just because we can't be perfect doesn't mean we shouldn't deliver more healthcare.
In essence, I can answer all of your challenges with this: yes, every problem is multifaceted, but that doesn't change the fact that EVERY problem can be improved by giving people more money and services, and usually the problems can't really be improved without it. And instead of giving more and more profits to the people who happen to already own the capital to invest, we should be using those profits to take care of our people. If the economy improves but wages are stagnant (as they have been for years), then a rising tide doesn't lift all boats, because some people are hoarding all the...tide (bear with me).
I come across this argument about relative poverty sometimes and I just don't get it. There's nothing relative about working 2 jobs, having less than 8 hours literally in the day left for sleep, having no leisure time, living paycheck to paycheck, not being able to afford nutritious food or having time to cook it, not having any power at work, having food or housing insecurity, not being able to afford to live in a good area, etc. I wouldn't say any one of these is the definition of poverty, per se, but my point is that these are objective factors of misery, it has nothing to do with percentile. Saying eliminating poverty is impossible because its defined as the bottom 10% is - sorry to be snarky - Ben Shapiro-level strawmanning and pedantry.