Writer's Block: Health Care

[pikabot]

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Is that even a question? It's a right. It is something that you need to live, and therefore nobody has the right to deny you access to it. End of story.

Also I see a lot of people saying "it's a privilege but it should be a right". That's...not how rights work.

Comments

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

I'd like to think humanity as a whole could agree with that. >>

[paperclipchains.livejournal.com]

How do you feel about two-tier systems?

[pikabot]

I don't see a problem with them provided that the public and private systems offer comparable levels of service.

[paperclipchains.livejournal.com]

Do you think that they would, in practice?

[pikabot]

Considering that our public system delivers service far better than the the US' private one, I don't think it's beyond possibility. It would really depend on the government not making a complete dog's breakfast of the public health system. Which we already depend on, quite frankly.

So in short while you'd have to be careful with it, a two-tiered system is not the boogeyman, despite what the Liberal Party of Canada would have you believe.

[loganberrybunny.livejournal.com]

Please excuse my butting in here; I'm a Brit who's been browsing through these Writer's Block answers.

I actually think that Canada's unusual position on healthcare is something that can polarise the debate in the US so much, because when Americans think "universal healthcare" they naturally tend to look north. I think I'm right in saying that, unless you count Cuba, Canada is the only country with a single-tier public system. I certainly can't think of a European country that doesn't have some form of two-tier healthcare.

But because Canada (in theory, if not in practice) restricts private provision so much, a lot of Americans take fright, assuming that under a universal-healthcare system they would be banned from taking out private insurance. I can't speak for the rest of the world, but Britain has plenty of private insurance available (though Brits actually spend less on private medicine than Canadians!) and we still manage to maintain the National Health Service.

Conversely, I wonder whether one of the main reasons the unusual single-tier public system persists in Canada might be that Canadians, when thinking about private healthcare, naturally look south. In other words, both your countries are out of the healthcare-policy mainstream, in opposite directions. Hence the polarisation I mentioned. Just a thought.

[maggiekarp.livejournal.com]

"To you" seems to suggest that my answer should be determined by how I currently experience health care...


...and I don't. HAHAHAHAHA cough sputter


Yeah, I think healthcare should be one of those provided-for things, but I know it's not gonna happen in this country... right away.

Right vs Wrong!

[redcatjewell.livejournal.com]

I agee with you morally! Unfortunately, it's not about the patient, not all the time anyway, it's about the money. People are looked at with dollar signs above their heads. The Bible says, "Money is the root of all evil"...could there be a truer statement?

Re: Right vs Wrong!

[pikabot]

Actually, the bible says that love of money is the root of all evil...and it was actually Paul what said it, when it's commonly misattributed to Jesus.

I really don't have a problem with people wanting to make money--I know I sure do--but when you're preventing people from accessing essential services, you've gone too far with it.

Right vs Wrong!

[redcatjewell.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're right...it says, the love of money. I don't have a problem with people making money either...as long as what is supposed to be done is done.

[rebbe]

I think we have a slight bias in the form of being Canadians here, Peter |:

[runic-binary.livejournal.com]

I'm an American and I would love to be able to even consider health care a privilege. It is a right, but it's not one that I get to exercise.

[rebbe]

S-sorry, I didn't mean to offend!

I was just trying to add a little humour to the situation D:

[runic-binary.livejournal.com]

I'm not offended! I was just saying a lot of Americans have the same bias.

Howdy, thank you quite quite a bit!

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