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I do believe you're missing quite a lot. As western societies become increasingly feminized, many in these societies expect to be cared for and nurtured in much
by grayed-down 6y ago
I do believe you're missing quite a lot. As western societies become increasingly feminized, many in these societies expect to be cared for and nurtured in much the same way they were by their mothers. Their governments then take on the role as their Other Mother.
The problem with our Other Mother providing health care is that options and competencies will become severely limited due to centralized decision making and lack of incentives for qualified individuals to become physicians, or even to continue practicing medicine.
I believe the individual should share in some of the financial and logistical burdens of their own healthcare. Do I think our Other Mother has a role in providing healthcare? Certainly, but way in the back of the process in support of extreme and extremely chronic cases like transplants, severe injury recovery, advanced diabetes and some others.
- xtracto 6y agoThe tale of "capitalism / free market is good for providing options and competition" has been debunked time and time again. Look at telcos or nowadays cable providers. Yeah there are several , but they conspire to setup geographic micro monopolies. Same with airlines and computing (Microsoft in the past, Google in the present, apple as well) That is fine for goods and services that are not essential... but for health? It is a terrible idea now, as it was for firefighting 200 years ago.