Manson got me thinking about how unjust our healthcare system really is

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5. i think there will be a split in health care. covered essential and less covered non-essential

obviously there's already completely non-covered stuff like vanity plastic surgery (not plastic surgery for, e.g., burn victims or after mastectomies)

however, i think the politics are such that the only "compromise" available may be that *some* health care will be deemed to be "essential" and covered (whether single-payer, medicare for all, "like a utility" as you say, etc.).

and other health care will be less covered as it will be deemed not essential.


i don't like that distinction at all, i see it as all essential; but if republicans are open to anything, it might require drawing a distinction between life and death health care vs. quality of life health care.


then again, we might yet be able to win without making this compromise....