Some politicians are still obsessed with repelling the Affordable Care Act. People elected to public civil service sure are cavalier about cutting medical insurance to millions of voters.
When Ford motor realized the Pinto was dangerous, the company calculated the cost of a human life and decided it was an acceptable loss.
The
insurance companies are notorious for calculating profits on a Macvellian
level. How much is the cost of a human life today Mr. Insurance executive?
After you add in the cost of buying a congressman to vote in your favor, is the
cost of a human life still cheap enough? How easy is it to deny coverage to
diabetics who can't afford their insulin, or somoene with a pre-existing heart
condition? Very easy when captialism trumps morality.
If we want to be truly Macavellian capitalist let's go all the way. People with expensive disabilities-gone, People who are retired and obviously in poor health-gone. The poor, the homeless, the willfully unemployed-gone. Let's bring back eugenics- the sterilization will be at their cost, of course- they simply cost too much for society to support.
Let's put our massive, costly military to good use and create death squads. What better way for a soldier to prove their loyalty to the oligarchy than ridding it of potential protest and revolution.
I'm being cynical, of course but where do we draw the line? How do we decide this life is more valuable than that one? When did our society decide that making money is more valuable than someone's life?
Those who insist publicly funded health care is socialism, "Why should I pay for some strangers unhealthy choices?" forget it also provides medical protection for your family, relatives, friends and co-workers.
We pay to support local police, fire departments and community colleges to protect and enrich the community. That means all of us. Do you really want to be like the soulless who keep you poor by denying basic human needs?
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1 comment:
Insurance is not the villan here. That is simply a scheme to spread the cost of medical care amoung a larger population base. Insurance is fairly well regulated and not making an onerous amount of profit. The fact of the matter is that medical care in the US eclipses the costs in countries with socialized medicine. You can not simply have the US government take over the cost. Our government sucks at administering that sort of thing.I dont want to pay what it would cost to just socialize what we have now.You have to address the issues that drive up cost. Drugs that cost multiple times what those same drugs. Medical costs that are not published or given up front so they don't have to compete. While private medical insurance can negotiate drug and other medical costs, Medicare is forbidden by law to negotiate. I don't think we want to simply follow that same pattern. Regulating what drug companies can charge. Requiring medical charges to be published and estimated up front with regulation. But we can't do that can we? Our congress and senate are bought and paid for by the highest bidder.
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