Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills
by AvocadoPanic on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @06:38PM
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Why shouldn't someone with means be able to buy a better level of care?
Re:What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills
by josho on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @06:55PM
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The biggest complaint of public systems is wait times for services. If the rich can jump ahead and get treatment ahead of the poor then congratulations you've built a system that enables the rich to pay for life saving operation, while the poor do not. Right wing parties then spend their time in power weakening the public system so those wait times increase or quality of service lessons.
Another way of looking at it is we don't have private firehalls. I'd argue healthcare is the same.
Interestingly we are moving towards having private security forces, enabling some to be more safe than others. I don't agree with that either. So, maybe it's a philosophical difference, I feel strongly that for basic rights (e.g. health, safety) we should all be treated equal, and money should not grant me special treatment.
The wealthy with their ability to influence politics will lobby to undermine/weaken the public system to save their tax dollars.
You are better off with one system so that everyone is entitled to the same level of care. We do this with fire/police, same applies to health.