Modern Eugenics? And those states are going to let you die.
Yes, they are. They are going to do it for profit. They’re going to do it because they think you are a luxury. They going to do it because they can’t stand the thought of having to pay for some baby with a heart defect or somebody who’s HIV positive or somebody who has cancer or the mentally ill.
These are the REAL death panels, right here.
That is some Nazi shit. Literally. Aktion T4, the Nazi program to eliminate defectives. The people they considered “luxuries.” And don’t your forget for one minute that Eugenics began here in the US, the Nazis got the idea from US. When states were allowed to decide, they were perfectly happy to sterilize those they deemed unfit and less than perfect. Luxuries. – Stonekettle Station on Facebook
What this is, more than anything, is an underscoring of something I’ve known for a long, long time. Employers should be banned from inquiry into the health of any of its employees. Not only should they not be allowed to offer insurance of any kind, they should be forbidden to even ask, officially. My health is my business. Not the states’ business, and not my employer’s business. My business.
It all comes back to the problem of who pays for that for most people. This is what public health is established for. Public health’s job is to pay for the care that the individual cannot afford, or that requiring the individual to pay for reduces the application of good health practices.
If you want to pay less for healthcare as a society, you have to encourage people to seek health advice regularly. Get their injections. Get their screenings and checkups. There should be rewards for this behavior, not costs, because doing these things saves the public money. You never hear conservatives talk about these facts. Why? That’s a good question, one you will have to ask conservatives about. Jim hazards several answers to this question, several pointed answers. But in the end, conservatives will have to answer the question for themselves. Why do you think that individual health is anybody’s business aside from the individual?
Medicare for all is the only way to fix America’s healthcare problems. Medicare for all would move public health out of the commercial morass it has been in and make it tax funded as it always should have been. Require the government to negotiate for better prices from drug manufacturers rather than forbid them from negotiating as they currently are. It is time to stop this slide towards kleptocracy before we wake up and discover we live in Russia.
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