Reply #63: Wow

[sandnsea]

Waiting for you to roll out the "welfare cadillacs" any minute now.

Just a couple things, people may still be able to get any services at an ER where you live, but where I live they are turning people away unless they are genuine life-threatening emergencies. They tell them to go to the clinic. Catch-22, the clinic doesn't have enough doctors so they often turn those same people away because there aren't any appointments available.

Health care is at the very core of living, along with food and water. It is a basic human right, that's why doctors take the hippocratic oath, why we have Good Samaritan laws, etc. There is no more reason for health care to have been set up as a private industry than for firefighting to have been set up as a public one. Like I said already, a sick person is as much a detriment to the public good as a burning building, either through the spread of disease or the inability to work. It's not just the decent thing to do, it's imperative for a fully functioning working society. And it isn't just for those who have the right "skill sets".