Reply #39: Health Care; not having it is an affront to the concept of civilization [View All]

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We banded together many centuries ago to make some rules so we could coexist and flourish as a species. This brought us safety from the immoral among us so the rest of us could specialize and advance ourselves on all fronts. The basic, fundamental expression of civilization is guaranteeing a few certain rights, and the expectation of having access to health care is good for us all as a group; it's important that those walking among us can know the level of reliability of their physical beings and act accordingly. It's simply an essential building block of a proper social contract.

The cost should not be a factor, but we have to live in a practical world, so having one's physical survival be dependent on one's finances is a danger and impediment to us all. Thus, the concept of health care only being available depending on one's needs is, above all else, impractical.

Without this, we are in a brutish crisis-mode world of just scraping by, sneering at the infirm in the few moments when we can't simply ignore them outright.