• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    8 months ago

    he will have no issue finding private healthcare contractors to serve him at his home

    He'll have the cream of the crap, to be sure.

    But, again, look at how guys like Steve Jobs and Herman Cain - people who died of preventable / treatable illnesses because they surrounded themselves with quacks and stuffed their brains with bullshit.

    This is a service that even the moderately rich (millionaires) can afford

    If health care was all I cared about, I would rather be a middle class schlub in Cuba or Spain than a millionaire in the UK right now.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      the rich in capitalist core nations get better healthcare than the average person in any socialist nation. you need a reality check

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          This doesn’t vindicate your point whatsoever. The king could easily afford standard advanced healthcare if he so chose. Him being a quack doesn’t change that.

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            8 months ago

            The king could easily afford standard advanced healthcare if he so chose.

            I guarantee you that he's going to be paying out the nose for some guy to shove kumquat juice up his butt.

            Him being a quack doesn’t change that.

            Hacking away at the domestic health care system and denuding the nation of educated, qualified physicians with the capacity to consistently deliver life-saving care means that Dr. Oz tier motherfuckers are going to fill in the gap you left behind.

            Yes, it would be much nicer to live in a nation full of expert professional physicians who spend all day doing top tier medical treatments. And yes, he can afford to do that. But HE DIDN'T. He lives in a palace full of quacks that's in a city full of quacks that's in a country full of quacks. All because quacks are cheaper.

            Say what you will about the Cuban medical system, but it is a product of the overall economy. It is a consequence of cumulative generational investment in top tier talent and the education to match. That Shit Cost Money. The benefits might be spread equitably, but the costs are still there - in hours of training and accumulation of materials and investment in blue sky research. Cuban health care isn't free, it is GDP. UK health care isn't, and that's why King Charles is fucked.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        8 months ago

        Health care in Cuba routinely surpasses anything you can get on the US Gulf Coast. The country's biomedical industry is world class and one of its primary exports is trained medical staffers.

        There are a lot of things that Cuba lacks in terms of industrial infrastructure. They can't make primary steel or disposable plastics. They don't have access to chip fabricators or cheap electricity. But when it comes to health care, they've maxed that shit out and then some. Even American foreign policy makers recognizes as much and routinely try to lure over Cuban medical professionals every chance they get.