On the pleasures, and luxury, of single-payer healthcare: https://jacobinmag.com/2017/11/single-payer-health-care-medicare … (via @boingboing)
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good grief. such a glorified, retcon view of pastoral- that-never-was portrait! I see single payer and immediately think: DMV, healthcare edition
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Other countries have longstanding, multi-decade (or multi-century-long) cultures of priding themselves on having competent bureaucracies. We’ve been alive long enough to only know a national culture that derides & undermines this.
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Aha, yes, this is a *really* key point. There is still enough of a culture in Canada of being proud of the health-care system, for all of its flaws ...
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But it’s not having the pride — it’s the pride resulting in sufficient resources and in the institution being able to continually attract great talent. When a country’s leadership has spent an entire generation vocally deriding the quality of its public institutions, where do
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You think the best talent goes? It goes into the private sector, eroding the public sector’s ability to attract future leadership and rank-and-file folks.
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