“When my mom died, the hospital bill was 300 thousand dollars for a single 36 hour span. The healthcare industry and pharmaceutical industry are literally evil and I will never vote for a candidate who doesn’t support free healthcare in my entire life, no exceptions. Going into debt because of your human body is objectively immoral and if you don’t support Medicare for all, you’re not on my team and never will be.”
Without knowing any specifics of the circumstances of the person who put this on Twitter today, and acknowledging that their frustration/anger are appropriate, I just have a couple points/questions.
I have to wonder how old his mother was, and what kind of insurance she had/had access to, and if/why she didn’t access what was available.
Calling two entire industries, and by extension everyone in those industries, “evil” seems to be a bit extreme.
There is no such thing as “free healthcare”.
If morality is not objective, then how can something be “objectively immoral “?
Virtually everything anyone goes into debt for is somehow related to the human body. Why aren’t those things “objectively immoral”?
If going into individual debt to pay for medical care is “objectively immoral”, then wouldn’t going into societal debt be at least equally “objectively immoral”?
There’s some math going around that points out that Bernie’s healthcare plan is actually a net financial loss to someone who’s making $15.00/hour.
I guess I’m wondering if it’s possible to express frustration with the situation without calling people “evil”, and without destroying relationships.
2 comments:
It's pretty easy to get emotional in situations where one's failing health leaves one in debt. But it's not as if one is unable to mitigate such a possibility. Those who find themselves in such situations generally act as if all the time that went before that unfortunate episode was not filled with choices that led to being so unprepared.
I agree and understand the emotional response, but by casting the situation as the commenter did, he removes the ability of the reader to understand the entire situation.
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