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Are you saying it's an inherently immoral idea to have for profit healthcare, much less for-profit eldercare?
If only there were literally centuries of fucking historical record and historical fiction on exactly why charging for healthcare destroys societies.
What is the alternative? These people live in high cost care facilities on the taxpayer's dime for 10-20 years?
My mother and grandmother were both in full time care facilities for the last 5-10 years of their lives. They cost 10-20K a month, or 120-200K a year. Social security only pays about 2K a month, and medicare doesn't cover long term care, only short term care.
Medicaid does cover long term care, but only after the person is completely broke. And many facilities won't take it because the payments are so low that they can't cover basic costs.
Y'all act like it's 'so easy' but these problems persist even in countries where healthcare is nationalized. The demand for healthcare resources is simple vast out supplies care that is available, especially as the population ages. Hence in 'affordable' healthcare systems you are still undeserved and it's still expensive.
That's compiled by the fact healthcare workers, while in demand, and often getting good pay, burn out rapidly due to the demands of the job.
Healthcare was great 40-50 year ago because people died young and medical technology was infantile. Now we can keep people alive on machines for decades, but it costs boatloads of money to do this, and we dont' live in a world of infinite resources. There are only so many beds, and so many staff that can work in these facilities.
Grind em up for dog food then I guess.
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