Re:Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes
by aaomidi on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:58PM
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> The comments and downvotes here are probably from wealthy / well-off people on HN
This is funny because statistically wealthy people are the ones usually against increases in taxes.
I was born in Iran, so I’ve dealt with my fair share of bullshit. My conclusion from my life is that we are individuals and we are a collective as well. A collective where if there’s a lot of illness in a part of it, it makes us all sick.
Second off we literally do not need more taxes to have proper healthcare in this country. We do not have a money problem, but a politics and policy problem. We have a problem that a lot of people think that by helping others, they’re the ones getting punished.
A healthy society means a society that has more energy and time to work on problems that benefit us all.
May I suggest this, instead of seeing healthcare coverage for more people as a punishment for you, see it as a collective investment to allow people to focus on things that matter.
And, note that healthcare isn’t the point of service by a doctor. It means healthy city design. Healthy subsidies for food (instead of subsidies HFCS for example). It means better public transit. It means actual neighbors and neighborhoods. It means longer weekends.
This is funny because statistically wealthy people are the ones usually against increases in taxes.
I was born in Iran, so I’ve dealt with my fair share of bullshit. My conclusion from my life is that we are individuals and we are a collective as well. A collective where if there’s a lot of illness in a part of it, it makes us all sick.
Second off we literally do not need more taxes to have proper healthcare in this country. We do not have a money problem, but a politics and policy problem. We have a problem that a lot of people think that by helping others, they’re the ones getting punished.
A healthy society means a society that has more energy and time to work on problems that benefit us all.
May I suggest this, instead of seeing healthcare coverage for more people as a punishment for you, see it as a collective investment to allow people to focus on things that matter.
And, note that healthcare isn’t the point of service by a doctor. It means healthy city design. Healthy subsidies for food (instead of subsidies HFCS for example). It means better public transit. It means actual neighbors and neighborhoods. It means longer weekends.