I have always gelt very strongly about the idea that healthcare should be free to all, but we live in a government and society when people assume that it is a privilege, not a right.
When someone's mother gets diagnosed with breast cancer, but cannot afford the treatment, is that fair? Is it fair that she must suffer?
Today, we are facing a crisis in our healthcare system. With this, crisis, we see that people could be turned down for treatment of a very infectious disease specifically because they are poor.
As a sociologist, we hear of the term "culture of poverty". This is the belief that some people have which means that poor peoples are poor because that is all they know how to be, so they refuse to work harder to get out of it. As I am sure you can probably imagine, that entire idea is bullcrap. People are poor because of a lack of education and lack of opportunity. How is that their fault? and why does that make them any less deserving of being taken care of than anyone who has money?
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