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> In countries with single-payer healthcare (or socialised healthcare), it's not true that it harms only the consumer. This is a fallacy. Public health measure
by denton-scratch 4y ago
> In countries with single-payer healthcare (or socialised healthcare), it's not true that it harms only the consumer.
This is a fallacy. Public health measures benefit some individuals more than others; but everyone benefits. Free treatment catches TB infections, for example, which occur overwhelmingly among homeless people. We're all better off if there are no homeless people wandering around with TB.
I'm glad my neighbours all benefit from the NHS, and that I'm not surrounded by sick people.
- bart_spoon 4y agoYou aren’t addressing the point they are making. They aren’t arguing that socialized healthcare is worse than no socialized health care. They are saying that the societal burden of providing said health care is distributed across the population, and while it may be preferable to do so, it still means that something like excess sugar consumption has a negative effect on others.