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Originally Posted by potatobroth
Your ideals presume that the only reason people get sick or need medical attention is because they are weak or because they weren't wearing a foam body suit. Prevent their mistakes? Tell a dying relative that their cancer is a preventable mistake.
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Step two in the health care process, for my ideals, is that you have money to pay for those things. If everyone went through step 1, the only real major health concerns would be from people who sleep, eat, exercise, and deal with stress well (because of education/upbringing) but have health conditions that arise from genetic cases or other diseases we haven't pinpointed to be cause by human recklessness (because ideally, in step 1, people don't get preventable diseases as much as they do today). If the disease is not preventable hopefully the individual has enough monetary credit to pay for care (that isn't as overpriced as things are today, ideally). If there isn't money, in my ideals, there would be a community safety-net act that would provide the health care for her.
I do believe that medical care is unreasonably priced, to agree with the Universal Healthcare types. I'm not sure I expressed that before clearly.
I don't think this is too utopian, or unrealistic. I believe this is not utopian because humanity has gradually made some gains in certain aspects of society, like slavery and other retrospectively inhumane things, and I believe health care charity/community action is a possible jump. I'm slightly smoked out so excuse any incoherence...
I also just got the idea to brilliantly sample the synth anthem from Dark Train...