• Cyberwitch_7493@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    It’s kinda like comparing universal healthcare to individual payer for-profit insurance. One rewards everyone as a universal system with consistency (at least in theory) and the other rewards only rich people.

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      10 months ago

      That’s why they oppose universal healthcare here in the US – they wan’t access to special treatment.

      What they don’t realize is they can still have Mommy’s Super Special Boy™ access, since even in a system of universal healthcare, there’s still a demand for private practice.

      So really, it just boils down to them hating poor people and other marginalized groups

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        10 months ago

        Also universal healthcare can afford specialized equipment because the amount of people they would service is higher than the profit driven hospital

        Rather than the current system of specialized equipment still having to make profit so treatment costs increase

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      10 months ago

      Except you would be very upset if your Uber eats took 3-5 days to arrive, as a postal system does. The cost is because it’s an entirely different product, an on-demand courier system. It’s closer to comparing universal healthcare with having a doctor on retainer (if such a thing exists).