• @Roflol@lemmy.ml
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    12 years ago

    socialized healthcare will still be better at popular diseases. None of the approaches are particularly good for rare disease sufferers. But socialized is not a silver bullet.

    • @unfreeradical@lemmy.world
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      52 years ago

      The point is that private healthcare is driven by the profit motive.

      The state is the only institution under our current social organization both that carries capacities at the same scale as corporations, and that may be legitimately supporting the interests of the public.

      • @Roflol@lemmy.ml
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        12 years ago

        I live with socialized healthcare, its nice. Especially for the poor, who would not be getting any without it. But you get random doctor that might be good or not very good. Some medicine you wont get cause its too expensive to procure. In the us, it seems if you got good coverage, you get better healthcare than pretty much all countries with socialized healthcare today. But i dont live in the us, so i dont know