Yes, me too.
One issue is just managing expectations.
The wealthy get better health insurance and can afford co-pays in the U.S., and they get excellent healthcare. Sometimes that aspect of “wealth” is simply which insurer your employer chose.
When theorists discuss the type of advanced therapy and surgeries that will allow people to live well into their 100s, one practical issue that gets brought up is what happens if everyone demands it as part of their insurance premiums.
I know others disagree, but I don’t think the overall quality of healthcare in socialized medicine is as high as in the U.S. for those fortunate enough to get everything approved.
But there isn’t the level of anger and rage in systems where everyone is largely in the same boat (or have the sense to shut the fuck up about paying extra to get a private doctor and advancing in line) as there is in the U.S. from those who feel slighted.
I never dreamed we would see this type of online reaction when a CEO is shot dead in the streets.
At least adults don‘t cheer troubled kids on when they shoot other schoolchildren. Hopefully none of those troubled kids overhear adults being so gleeful about this shooting.
I dont think people are being gleeful.
Notice how this reaction is common both in the right and the left.
It is because people realize there is a deep injustice in the US and you yourself highlighted it.
Some people are fortunate enough to get the highest quality care possible, while others.....just die.
For example, it is 100% evil to cancel a woman's insurance, after she is diagnosed with Uterine cancer using a spurious reason such as failure to report acne.
So we in Canada may have to wait 1 year for an MRI, but when the shit hits the fan, I can assure you that Canada provides the highest quality care that is comparable to just about any developed nation out there.
Our doctors, nurses, hospital staff, ER staff are all truly great.
I have myself been a recipient of such care just this past year.
For non urgent cases, yes we all wait.
And although that is not efficient, it is still
JUST.
That is what people cheer for.
A CEO that led a company with a 32% denial rate, that financially ruined families and destroyed lives, was gunned down.
Not sure for what reason.
People like him do whatever they want, and always get away with it.
Doesn't matter how evil or immoral.
But considering the amount of lives he negatively impacted, his shooting would appear to be poetic justice.
