Because no argument or logical premise has been provided, you've simply stated your position. if you'd like to further discuss this point I am all ears...
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I am stating that you’d b destroying dearly needed programs and leaving people stranded economically, a terrible plan at best..
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...And yet still have provided zero reasons why that might be the case...
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Not everyone can afford medical care, in fact, few can. My family was military, and when I was born, I had a whole in my heart. Thankfully, it fixed itself, but the treatments they used to keep me in stable condition, along with the total cost of pregnancy, remained at over 400k. We would’ve had that debt until I HAD kids, (though I don’t ever plan to), and we wouldn’t have been able to pay it for decades. Thankfully, the government funding for Tricare covered that, and that debt isn’t left to speak of. For people just starting out, or people lacking money or having… Read more
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You've made one assumption that kills your entire argument – people are only motivated by profit in a free market economy. You may not have heard of this, but private individuals, who are more charitable than any power-hungry government, actually make these great things called non-profit organisations that, rather than seeking profit, seek to alleviate some of society's woes through generosity and charity. And they're remarkably effective in the world of medicine. Take for example Samaritan Ministries (you can't join because you're not Christian, but there are other options that provide similar care). In this vast, online network of individual families, you pay a subscription fee that is hand-selected to go toward the medical expenses of a certain family posting on the website, and may then donate additional revenue to that needy family. And it works amazingly – millions of dollars worth of hospital fees, surgeries, doctor visits for the poor, ad infinitum have been financed by this organisation that is entirely powered through voluntarism and liberty rather than force, fraud, and coercion. There are many other organisations like this worth looking into. So don't claim that somehow because healthcare is expensive the needy must have a criminal cartel plundering other people's money for them, there are highly effective but honest means to supply the care they need on the free market that do indeed put patients ahead of profit, as they are non-profit charities run by generous loving people. Read more
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Non-profits are still very much capable of corporate corruption and political abuse by politicians. In fact, they are more and more predominantly being used as a storage method for politicians trying to influence others with dark money. Non profits also still don’t do much at all on the total economic scale. The US spends 4.7 trillion per year (as of 2023) on healthcare, and it still remains one of our biggest issues. Non-profits provide, all combined in the entire non profit sector, barely over 1.4 trillion dollars to the economy. They can’t fix healthcare, and they can’t… Read more
