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Re:Stop Blaming America’s Poor for Their Poverty by ryacko on Saturday August 03, 2019 @01:16PM (#20601483)
No economic system has abolished status or privileges.

Not even Communism. To fight status itself is to fight human nature. People will always try to obtain benefits and pass them down to their children.

200 years ago, all medicine was hospice care. Allocating resources to an industry for which there is infinite demand for - staying alive - will be difficult.

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Re:Stop Blaming America’s Poor for Their Poverty by foldr on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:00PM (#20618893)
>Allocating resources to an industry for which there is infinite demand for - staying alive - will be difficult.

Will it? The NHS does an ok job. Not perfect by any means, but much better than the US.

I don't demand perfection, just something significantly better than a situation where 15% of the population are uninsured. Do you think that is so terribly difficult?

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