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Racism is nothing like health care. Health care is a good or service that depends on other people's labor. People do not have a right to other people's labor (
by slibhb 2y ago
Racism is nothing like health care.
Health care is a good or service that depends on other people's labor. People do not have a right to other people's labor (no matter how much they insist otherwise). It's entirely reasonable to bring up the fact that most Americans are happy with their health care.
- harimau777 2y agoI disagree that people don't have the right to other people's labor. Society is effectively a system where people pool their labor, resources, ability, etc. for mutual benefit. If people can't reasonably expect to gain some of the benefits that other people can provide, then why would they enter into the social contract in the first place?
- c0nducktr 2y ago>People do not have a right to other people's labor Oh god not this nonsense "you're enslaving the doctors" argument. By the way, insurance companies don't provide health care. They're a financial layer set to extract profit from those who need it, and United Healthcare seems to be the best at it.
- slibhb 2y agoThat is not, in fact, what insurance is.
- sumeno 2y agoIt is not what insurance should be, but it is in practice what private health insurance is.
- salawat 2y agoInsurance is an attempt at statistical multiplexing of a financial resource whose profit taking mechanism is investment of float, and management of spread, leading to perverse incentives when it comes time to actually pay out. As statistical multiplexing usually does, it improves things somewhat when you can't grow things larger, but when done for-profit with dividends, often disincents actually solving the capacity problem.
- dragonwriter 2y ago> Racism is nothing like health care. Racism is a lot like classism, though, and the distribution of health care is a consequence of structural classism of capitalist society.
- slibhb 2y agoI don't think racism is much like classism. I'm not sure what your second clause means other than "currently, people with more money can buy more health care". Of course it would be nice if the supply matched the demand r.e. health care. But neither single-payer systems nor more radical "restructurings" have solved that problem.
- antisthenes 2y ago> It's entirely reasonable to bring up the fact that most Americans are happy with their health care. You can bring it up and it very well may be factually true, but it's irrelevant to the discussion.