No one should have to choose between getting medical care and paying rent. The idea that access to healthcare depends on your ability to pay is fundamentally inhumane. A just society ensures that everyone, regardless of income, has the care they need to lead a healthy life.
The U.S. spends more per capita on healthcare than any other country, yet millions remain uninsured or underinsured. A universal system would not only be morally right but also economically efficient: cutting administrative waste, reducing costs, and improving outcomes. It’s time to move beyond the for-profit model and prioritize people over profit.
Why isn’t it a human right? Because the people in power don’t want it to be. Declaring healthcare a human right would mean dismantling the profit-driven system that enriches insurance companies, pharmaceutical giants, and private hospitals. The U.S. treats healthcare as a commodity rather than a necessity because there’s too much money to be made off people getting sick.
The right to healthcare exists in principle–most developed nations recognize it–but in the U.S., it’s deliberately kept out of reach. Politicians take donations (bribes) from the healthcare industry, lobbyists, write policy, and the public is fed propaganda about the “dangers” of universal healthcare: “it will lead to longer wait times!” (the U.S. already has long wait times) ;”it will be too expensive” (the U.S. already spends more per capita on healthcare than countries with universal systems); “it’s socialism!” And? Socialized fire departments, socialized roads, socialized military. Why is healthcare where we draw the line? People accept Medicare, VA healthcare, and public schools without screaming about socialism
Basically, these arguments exist to protect the profits of insurance and pharmaceutical companies, not to help people.
Sisyphus Shrugged 
In the UK we’ve been lucky enough to have the National Health Service. It means that everybody is entitled to medical help, no insurance necessary. But Trump’s poodle and leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, wants to end that most civilised aspect of our society. Instead he wants an identical system to the US, for the same greedy reasons. So that the wealthy can be wealthier. And his party are currently leading in the poles. Farage is a con man, a liar, a racist and, to millions of Brits, a hero for some reason. The more right wing the UK becomes the more backward things seem to be sliding.
Have you heard of Jonathan Pie, K? He’s a political commentator who plays a comedy role of a news reader. He’s very good. Reminds me a bit of George Carlin. Here’s a link in case you haven’t come across him before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3XO_ee9VeY&t=161s
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I don’t know why any country would want to emulate the U.S. right now. This free country of ours is becoming less and less so with the entire government being controlled by the right wing politicians. What we need are some revolutionaries like Che Guevara, Vladimir Lenin, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, etc.
I’ve not heard of Jonathan Pie, but I’m going to check him out now. Thank you for the recommendation! Also, how have you been Oak?
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Hope you enjoyed the Pie Man. I’m alright thanks! I have a problem with concentration these days so I won’t be blogging much here. But I’ll still have a bit of a read around. How are K? I know you’re not in the best of health so I mean in a relative sense.
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I think the minimum tax rate here is 25% when you are over 20k? And for that we should have universal healthcare. How any country can call themselves civilised or modern without looking after the health of their old and sick is beyond me.
That said Big Pharma is lobbying President Tiny Hands to punish us for subsidising their meds – why the hell do they care if our government makes them affordable to the people – they still pay the full amount to the manufacturer – it’s just pure hatred of the poor at this point.
Norway nationalised their minerals and now they are one of the richest countries on Earth per capita – gee socialism is bad isn’t it?
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Big Pharma are serial killers. They, along with the elites in this country, want us dead. Well, they want the poors dead. They want a billionaire utopia. I just wish we could all organize to bring this system to its knees.
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