He literally does in the article. I read it. That’s where I got this sick quote:
Schneider pointed out, “We need to spend 100 billion dollars [on healthcare] instead of giving it to Ukraine forever wars, when we could end homelessness and get people healthy in one minute instead of just dumping our money.”
What he gets wrong is that the law as it is allows the healthcare industry to be what it is right now, and we could actually support Ukraine and get our people healthy with the right prioritization in Washington.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
No, what he is saying is we should solve our own problems before paying for others wars. 100 billion could do a lot of good here.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 5 months ago
I agree with that vague statement but that’s not what Rob is saying. He’s saying rather than find Ukraine we should heal our people. I agree about healing our people, but we can do it both by amending healthcare laws to not run the industry for profit.
No qualitative service (such as healthcare, housing, education, etc.) should be run with a quantitative strategy, because the focus turns from providing an effective service to being profitable. The correct answer is to end privatized healthcare and pay it out of our taxes like these other nations Rob alludes to in the article.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ukraine is far from a forever war, unless you’re proposing that Russia will keep invading them forever. They’re literally defending against a foreign enemy, you know, that thing that all soldiers swear to do. It is beneficial to Ukraine and to the United States for Ukraine to stand. If Russia expands into Ukraine then we’re back in a pre-WWII situation where a foreign enemy power is expanding across Europe against the will of every other country on the planet, except maybe China and NK.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I don’t mind sending aid to Ukraine. I was only pointing out what Rob said.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 5 months ago
I get your approach on this but he proposes the absolute worst solution here.
Taking aid from Ukraine and shoveling that money into our dysfunction profit-focused healthcare system is not going to do anything more than pad the pockets of healthcare corporations. The fact that he thinks we can just buy more healthcare instead of help Ukraine is so ridiculously dumb I can’t believe anyone would agree with him on that.
If you’re fiscally conservative you should be more focused on how to not need to spend more money in the first place. Within healthcare that’s going to require a focus off of profit and onto actually providing healthcare to citizens without the excessive profit margins of today.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Right on.