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"the right to live should not be dependent on the ability to pay" Wow, the rhetoric is strong in this one. Not only is this a catchy statement that will appeal
by zo1 13y ago
"the right to live should not be dependent on the ability to pay"
Wow, the rhetoric is strong in this one. Not only is this a catchy statement that will appeal to the masses, but it's also completely vague and devoid of any substance. I suppose if a medical treatment cost a few million dollars a pop, and it has to come out of his paycheck, he'll be very quick to put "buts" and "exceptions" in his statement.
If people really thought like him, we'd be getting our governments to be spending huge sums of money on health/healthcare/medical research. But we don't. So either he's one of the few that think this way, or there is something else at play.
- rayiner 13y agoGovernments do spend huge amounts on medical treatment. Medicare/Medicaid/NIH funding amounts to hundreds of billions per year.
- zo1 13y agoAgreed, they already spend a huge sum of money on healthcare. My point was that they don't spend a "huge" enough amount of money to make "right to live" possible in all scenarios.
- curiousphil 13y agoOr billions of dollars are spent by corporate lobbyists to ensure the government and general population keep the mindset that health and well being isn't a right for people that live in a wealthy first world nation.
- zo1 13y agoAnd yet, a quarter of the whole budget gets spent on Medicare/Medicaid. That's more than the US war apparatus's spending, which is a mere 18%.