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Some folks have a rehearsed diatribe that healthcare is not a human right because it entitles you to the labors of other people "which is slavery!" (those people would be getting paid, just like the armed forces and the police--guess we& #39;d better disband those?).
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The folly is in the convenient slogan "healthcare is a human right". Maybe it& #39;s not, but then neither are paved roads or libraries or the EPA or the USDA or or public education.
But these are services many of us agree we& #39;d like our taxes to go into, and if you don& #39;t use em fine.
But these are services many of us agree we& #39;d like our taxes to go into, and if you don& #39;t use em fine.
I personally have not been to a library in years, I also have no children to enroll in school. But I& #39;m not about to scream about the unfair slavery my taxes are enforcing by these services existing.
(Because that& #39;s insane.)
(Because that& #39;s insane.)
I& #39;m more bugged about trillion dollar bailouts to private companies and untaxed billions going to megachurch pyramid schemes than I am about the kids of my neighborhood being sent to a school staffed by teachers paid with taxes.
So healthcare isn& #39;t a human right. We should stop saying that it is. That& #39;s ultimately not what matters.
It& #39;s a thing that many of us want, and a thing that many of us would be just as comfortable with our taxes paying for as our schools and infrastructure.
It& #39;s a thing that many of us want, and a thing that many of us would be just as comfortable with our taxes paying for as our schools and infrastructure.
It& #39;s something that many of us would PREFER our taxes to provide over an infinite military budget.
I sort of wish every person when filing their W2& #39;s also submitted a sheet of how they would like their taxes to be spent, and then that would determine how things are budgeted.
It would just be a checklist.
If you don& #39;t want to support healthcare you don& #39;t have to.
If you don& #39;t want to support the military industrial complex you don& #39;t have to.
If you don& #39;t want to pay your congresspeople well... their bread is buttered elsewhere.
If you don& #39;t want to support healthcare you don& #39;t have to.
If you don& #39;t want to support the military industrial complex you don& #39;t have to.
If you don& #39;t want to pay your congresspeople well... their bread is buttered elsewhere.
I also think the dialogue ought to shift from state run healthcare to just state funded hospitals.
Who gives a shit about a healthcare plan?
Let& #39;s just go into a place that we know provide the services we need and know we won& #39;t be turned away.
Who gives a shit about a healthcare plan?
Let& #39;s just go into a place that we know provide the services we need and know we won& #39;t be turned away.
You don& #39;t want the government to run hospitals? They won& #39;t, the doctors will.
Let the librarians run the library.
The state just needs to keep it open.
And if you don& #39;t use it? You don& #39;t use it.
But it& #39;s nice to know it& #39;s there.
Let the librarians run the library.
The state just needs to keep it open.
And if you don& #39;t use it? You don& #39;t use it.
But it& #39;s nice to know it& #39;s there.
This thread is retroactively entitled "Dear @VerminSupreme"
