Subj : Re: Single payer health care
To : anthk
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Apr 08 2025 05:15 am
Re: Re: Single payer health care
By: anthk to All on Tue Apr 08 2025 01:05 am
> BTW, I live up in the North, and if you are from Madrid... Madrid it's a
> damn disaster
> because the right wing party destroyed it to put its private minions so
> everyone
> has to get a private insurance. They are a damn mafia.
Thanks for bringing up this point, because it is a recurrent issue:
Have you noticed that most of the people who want a strong socialized healthcare system in Spain can't stop complaining that socialized healthcare is underfunded, badly managed, and can't guarantee adecuate services?
It is Schroedinger's healthcare. It is awesome when we need to argue social healthcare is the best healthcare model, but it is awful the rest of the time.
Also, it is often argued that socialized healthcare is awful only because politicians have partnered with private healthcare investors in order to make it so. Considering Oscar Puente was caught driving an official vehicle from an hospital group before he was minister I can totally buy he had a shady deal with them (my suspicion is the hospital group was bribing Oscar Puente with that car as a way to ease some healthcare licensing deals that were going on up North back then). What others consider an argument in defense of socialized healthcare is actually a deep argument against it: how trustworthy could a social system be if the likes of Pedro Sanchez or Feijoo can trash it with no accountability in exchange for under-the-counter deals?
And in the end that is precisely the point. If social healthcare is corrupt (which it is) then nobody is giving you the option to opt-out unless you happen to be a government agent. That is so screwed up.
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