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It’s funny you say this has nothing to do with capitalism but all the countries you listed have largely socialized medicine. Once capital gets power it uses a
by FollowingTheDao 5y ago
It’s funny you say this has nothing to do with capitalism but all the countries you listed have largely socialized medicine.
Once capital gets power it uses a government to enforce that power.
- JamesBarney 5y agoRoughly a third of our healthcare spending is socialized medicine, and Medicare and Medicaid have the same issues we do.
- FollowingTheDao 5y ago1/3 < 3/3. We do not have anything close to socialized medicine.
- Vecr 5y agoI don't understand what you mean, not being universal does not have any bearing on that. The care is paid out of taxes.
- FollowingTheDao 5y agoI am on Medicare. Because it is not universal means it is only partly socialized and still operating inside of a non-socialized system. Why does this matter? I cannot get any doctor I want, only the ones taking Medicare, which are fewer and fewer, because they would rather only take people on private insurance. In France for example you can walk into any doctor and they will see you.
- AussieWog93 5y agoI live in a country with (mostly) free health care and we have 6-month wait lists too. Same shit in the UK, who invented the NHS. Please stop blaming every problem on your ideological pet peeve. Society is too complex for every single issue to be caused by capitalism, financialisation, the patriarchy or systemic racism.
- treeman79 5y agoThen that’s not capitalism. Veterinary care would be much closer to the model of a capitalistic solution.