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by rbanffy
2 days ago
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There’s nothing virtuous in letting people die because they can’t afford medication or healthcare. BTW, “right” and “wrong” are human constructs, so you are totally free to organise a society around the survival of the richest. It’s just not a society you’ll like living in. |
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There are other ways to properly fund universal healthcare that does not involve creating artificial taxes:
- Increase the actual income taxes.
- Policies that mandate the allocation of revenue from vice and environmental taxes (alcohol, smoking, gambling, fossil fuels) to the health system.
- Social security reform. Pensions should not be an investment, only insurance. Turn pensions into an UBI program that has a hard cap.
- Supplemental and voluntary insurance plans to work on top of the existing public network. This might be risky as it can introduce a dual-class system, but (a) it's already the reality in most countries anyway and (b) could be avoided if the system is built around a "cafe sopezzo" [0] mechanism (the priority is given to you when you use the service, but redirected to non-paying members for the months when you don't)
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3%A8_sospeso