JimC wrote:Simple.
You need a system of universal health care, as practiced (in a variety of forms) by the civilised world.
Perhaps, but there are downsides, as the comparison of the medical-related innovation and research done in the United States, as compared to the "civilized nations" is rather an interesting one, with the United States far and away presenting about 40% of the worlds research and innovation in this area.
I sense we will have to go down the route of a single payer universal health care. Although, i think that there should be a way to simply expand Medicaid to cover more than are covered now, in the way of a welfare state, and leave a free people to otherwise determine what they want to do. Can't we agree on a floor below which people won't sink, and then provide Medicare for the elderly? But, I think the answer is no, and we'll just have to nationalize it, and have done with it. I see no other alternative at this point.
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