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(28,979 posts)That was your question, right?
Because you think you are qualified to determine who gets care or not. I hope no one I care about ever faces you trying to deny them access to care because of your awful notion that you get to decide who gets life saving care or not.
I wouldn't trust you to treat a hangnail with your attitude. I grew up with universal healthcare provided by the US military. I know what is and is not possible. The medical personnel in the military saved lives. They did not ask for cash up front. They do not send in people like you to bill people $800 for saline solution in an IV. They do not hover like vultures over sick people's beds with a ream of paperwork to be filled out, with plans to send people home before they are well, their eye on the next deep pocket in line.
Hospitals are making huge profits but can't even sterilize the rooms well enough so people don't die of infections related to their stay in these institutionalized death factories.
37th in line for best healthcare according to Doctors Without Borders. What the hell do we have to brag about? And whose fault is it? Largely people like you who side with crooked insurance, big pharma, and the Catfood Commission.
And to answer your question, yes, I believe that every penny deducted from my pay stub should entitle me to needed lifesaving medical care on demand. It entitles me to expect that you do not make an exorbitant profit off my misery. Universal affordable healthcare is a human right. It's way more important of a concept worth defending and saving than the bloated insurance industry that has attached itself to the periphery like bloodsucking leeches of old. And the administrators of hospitals with their excessive salaries. The crooked lobbyists, the overcharging and gouging of people at every level, the sense of power, the rush over having the ability to make life and death decisions about people's lives.
Yes, yes, yes, I think it is criminal and should end. A state that cannot provide for the welfare of its citizens at this basic level has no inherent right to exist.