Comment by jquery
2 months ago
>supervillains Redditers imagine billionaires to be
Sure, they are just people like you and me. Doesn't mean their mere existence isn't evidence of a major flaw in our implementation of capitalism. Our society is becoming far too stratified. Healthcare should be a right at this point in our society's development, it's a stain on our country that we still carry on with a system that works for nobody except health insurance CEOs.
"Healthcare should be a right at this point in our society's development"
A 'right' shouldn't depend on someone else's labor.
"it's a stain on our country that we still carry on with a system that works for nobody except health insurance CEOs"
I do agree that we need to get rid of the middleman. Replacing it with another one (the government) is a mistake and leads to the same inefficiencies.
Common procedures should be charge directly to the patient. These prices will be forced to go down as there will be actual competition. This won't work in cases where the surgery is rare, and insurance will work here. This will cut most of the bloat out of of health care and reduce the costs for everyone.
Lasik eye surgery is a good example of this. It's not covered by insurance. A decade ago, it was $10,000. My parents just got it a year ago and paid less than $1,000 out of pocket.
Every right depends on someone else labor to some extend. Worst argument ever.
Greetings from europe where healthcare is free for everyone.
not true at all, only socialists think that (I'm also from Europe where everybody and their dog's a socialist)
Must be LAZEK vs LAZIK
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Many have made the poor worse off by pandering to the rich and entitled.
The rich don't have to be eaten, just constrained from exercising their worst excesses.
Societies have made the poor better off by preventing people from becoming too wealthy, though. Specifically, I'm thinking of the very high high-end tax rates that were common 60 years ago.
which countries did have high standards for everyone but no "too rich" (whatever that def means. Is more than 1 million dollars too much?) people?
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> Societies have made the poor better off by preventing people from becoming too wealthy
Example, please.