just to clarify what I find particularly compelling about this piece, which again I encourage people to read and engage with (and critique! that is what it is there for!): we all make a devils bargain with the market in order to receive the care we need — trans care included! —
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this is a bargain worth making with the system we have —we have also made this bargain wrt abortion rights. and all these rights should be unequivocally defended no exception. but the point is that by inscribing these as rights within the market, they are always-already governed
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by market logic and therefore just as easily rolled back or rationed off by market demands - again, you see this very clearly when it comes to abortoin rights. this is unsustainable. the call for socialised health care demands us to think more holistically about how
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we conceive of care *outside* rights governed by market logic. and that is a very big task but one that we must take on if we are to ever have a health system that truly delivers on its promise of equitable care for all no exceptions.
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Which Chu are they referring to?
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Andrea Long Chu probably
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can someone copy and paste it and make it free? I don't care at all about paying to read this, but I really want to read it ya?
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appealing to the "right" of a doctor to deny medical care is not a radical position and proposing a return to a medicine where doctors have power instead of a medicine that moves beyond both commercialization and professionalism is reactionary
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Oh how I long for the days when doctors were also sexist eugenicists who thought orgasm might cure ptsd depending on your skull size.
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