Who "profits off human suffering"? -Every doctor & nurse -Every cop & fireman -Every social worker & therapist -Everyone who makes live-saving medicines In short, anyone who's paid - even by Medicare/Medicaid! - to help people deal w/sickness, death, accidents, crime.https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1109821811988938752 …
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i think if there was a health care worker like a doctor who was in a position to increase prices at scale to increase his/her wages, and then said "ah, profit" Bernie Sanders probably would include that person in the group described by the tweet.
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Increasing prices when possible is what everyone in a market does, businesses & labor alike. If nurses strike for higher wages, they are increasing prices of their labor at scale via application of collective power. Bad?
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Every profession you listed makes money on the basis they can directly ameliorate the suffering. To equate care providers with companies that treat care as "medical loss" is either silly or disingenuous.
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With doctors, the issue is who gets to set the rate for their services.
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Wrong. Consider -- not the thousands of dr.s who own their business -- but thr millions of nurses, aides, technicians and support staff, who make up the vast majority of healthcare sector. They receive wages, not profits, as it shall ever be.
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*A doctor has never profited from denying someone healthcare. Insurance companies do. The U.S healthcare system is the only 1st world healthcare system that could preclude healthcare based on "pre-existing conditions". Why is that? Insurance company profits. No other reason.
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