Post by ck4829 on Jul 5, 2017 20:15:09 GMT
The problem with healthcare in the US is that, on the macro scale, it's not used for medicine
As in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illnesses, injuries, and disabilities; but rather it is used for social control.
Institutions in the US, from the government on down, use our healthcare system to:
Exclude people. Whether it's the 'wrong' people from care or the 'wrong' people from the profession itself because someone is poor or 'immoral'.
Blame the victim. Instead of treating people, this is where people are blamed for their conditions, happens everywhere from STIs to preexisting conditions.
Delegate morality. Where "lessons of morality" are forced down the throats of 'lesser' people, like with Chaffetz saying people need to choose between healthcare or an iPhone.
Polarize us. Healthcare in the US is used to create differences between class, race, and gender. Affluenza will never be a preexisting condition or put in a "high risk pool" and this is why viagra for men is cool but birth control for women faces more and more hurdles.
Coerce people. Notice the need to make employers the gatekeepers of who gets health insurance, you need to play by their rules.
And more.
Until this system is subjugated to a system where healthcare in the US is used for the purposes of medicine, there is no healthcare reform being done, and one might even say we don't truly have healthcare in the US at all.
As in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illnesses, injuries, and disabilities; but rather it is used for social control.
Institutions in the US, from the government on down, use our healthcare system to:
Exclude people. Whether it's the 'wrong' people from care or the 'wrong' people from the profession itself because someone is poor or 'immoral'.
Blame the victim. Instead of treating people, this is where people are blamed for their conditions, happens everywhere from STIs to preexisting conditions.
Delegate morality. Where "lessons of morality" are forced down the throats of 'lesser' people, like with Chaffetz saying people need to choose between healthcare or an iPhone.
Polarize us. Healthcare in the US is used to create differences between class, race, and gender. Affluenza will never be a preexisting condition or put in a "high risk pool" and this is why viagra for men is cool but birth control for women faces more and more hurdles.
Coerce people. Notice the need to make employers the gatekeepers of who gets health insurance, you need to play by their rules.
And more.
Until this system is subjugated to a system where healthcare in the US is used for the purposes of medicine, there is no healthcare reform being done, and one might even say we don't truly have healthcare in the US at all.