Message from @RyeNorth
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yea candidate whose running in my area specified right to choose your healthcare
There's Medicare and Medicaid for disabled and/or elderly people
It's not hard to make a safety net for fringe cases
Healthcare is a human right. Great Britain has the NHS, which gives access to healthcare. There was recently a case of a child that was terminally ill, and a treatment that may have saved their life wasn't available in Great Britain.
well you can type and find discord
It's hard to make a safety net for EVERYONE
you mean alfie?
Yes.
alfie was a travesty
I don't think that difficulty is a convincing argument
That case was absolutely ridiculous
It WAS available in Italy
It's the government's job to protect the citizen's rights
It WAS available in the United States.
Italy offered to help
and transport, etc
"We've decided that your child won't probably live, so we won't let you go to Italy for a treatment that may actually save his life"
The parents had means to pay for it as well.
Right but socialist healthcare cannot feasibly be a right
Complete bullshit
Bingo!
Who's talking about socialism?
Nor can being kept alive be a right
@RyeNorth Rye, the UK has a much smaller, more educated public
It'll work there, not in a country like America
We were talking about medicaid for the disabled
That's not the point, shiv.
I was saying it's easy to make an exception for a small group and produce a solution for a small number that works well
The point is they were forbidden to seek external care
So long as the larger system makes sense and is running smoothly
and forbidden to take their child somewhere
Where is the infringement on Health Care, as a Human Right, actually occuring?
Oooh you were talking about that dying kid
I view things pretty much the same way as Thomas Paine did, but not quite as far as he went in Agrarian Justice
sorry
I didn't scroll up
It's fine.
I'm just reclaiming the Human Right argument for socialized healthcare.
Also socialized healthcare hasn't been working in the UK, and it's not really working in Canada either
Often the systems people point to next are two tier