I'll offer up one possible answer.
But first, some comments 😀 For-profit health care will always neglect poor and working class folks.
Pvt biz will suck up health money treating the profitable patients. They'll avoid the sick, elderly, poor, and infirm like the plague.
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But first, some comments 😀 For-profit health care will always neglect poor and working class folks.
Pvt biz will suck up health money treating the profitable patients. They'll avoid the sick, elderly, poor, and infirm like the plague.
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https://twitter.com/nz_voter/status/1632495676729987072
So any health system that is predicated upon turning sick people into profits is doomed to failure.
The smart, profits are not in treating people with actual health needs.
The smart, profits are not in treating people with actual health needs.
Once we accept the basic truth that for-profit health care is about making as much profit as possible, and delivering as little health care as possible, we're getting somewhere.
If we view real healthcare simply as a public service
that maintains our society,
paid for by taxpayers, we're really making progress.
that maintains our society,
paid for by taxpayers, we're really making progress.
Because then we could stop pretending that healthcare is a business, and start focusing on service delivery.
The simple truth is if your teeth are rotting and hurting you, and you can't afford the 200-400+ dollars it costs to get a tooth pulled, it hurts more than just that patient, it hurts society.
We're not saving any money by not providing #dental care to New Zealanders.
We're not saving any money by not providing #dental care to New Zealanders.
Free social services paid for by taxes, are a social boon: a person can go to the emergency department, or get police services, or call a firefighter to their house, without having to pay a bill.
These social services help society function effectively and humanely.
These social services help society function effectively and humanely.
Why on Earth then, would we think it's a good or wise policy to let people suffer with (treatable!) illness, when they cannot afford to see a GP?
Primary care should be fully government-funded. Keeping people healthy keeps them functional.
Happy, productive, working, and able to care for their loved ones. It allows them to be part of a society rather than disabled by illness.
Happy, productive, working, and able to care for their loved ones. It allows them to be part of a society rather than disabled by illness.
Of course, dental care should be publicly provided. Of course, primary care GP services should be publicly provided.
Just like the fire service or where I work, the emergency department.
Just like the fire service or where I work, the emergency department.
Healthcare is a social service. Healthcare should be a taxpayer-funded, publicly accountable social service -- one that prevents unnecessary suffering in order to keep people healthy, productive, and happy.
Private healthcare will *always* skim the most-profitable cream, it will never be a viable option for treating the poor and working class.
It may work for cosmetic surgery, but it should have no role in providing essential health care services like primary care to New Zealanders.
It may work for cosmetic surgery, but it should have no role in providing essential health care services like primary care to New Zealanders.
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