I’ve long contemplated the morals behind universal healthcare, and always leaned more to the side of “why is it my responsibility to pay for your healthcare”.
When in reality it wasn’t me who was responsible for paying for less well-off people’s healthcare. It was the people who earn way more than their fair share of our minimal resources.
I wouldn’t be giving anything up. The people above me and above them would.
When in reality being given access and equal footing with the finite number of healthcare providers is just saying “I’ll give you just enough so you won’t suffer illnesses and injury too bad, but literally no more”. It’s really not even saying more than we deserve. It’s not like we’ll all start going to the hospital for weeks on end, but just use what we need when we need it.
And then there’s the argument that quality of care will go down and wait times will be long.
BUT THATS IF YOU ALREADY ACCESS THE SYSTEM. If you don’t access it, it doesn’t matter if it’s 15 days or 15 months to get scheduled for a surgery; you just won’t.
So it’s just an inconvenience to us? The people who can access the system? So that’s why we don’t let people who we pay less than they can afford to access it?
Oh yeah, and maybe that’s why we price it and pay them the way we do…
I get it now.