The tragic situation in Italy depicts the insufficiency of the public health system to manage an extensive crisis. This is not an unexpected phenomenon. The capitalist system and its governments all over the world treat healthcare for the public as a cost that can only be provided at a basic level. The development of a high-level public health system needs a high percentage of funding from the government and bumps the profits of the capitalists. Furthermore, the example of Italy highlights the contradiction between the need for preserving the public health system alongside the profits of the big businesses. Social distancing is prescribed, but, at the same time, conventional working of the factories and overcrowded public transportation for the workers lead to a high possibility of the spread of the virus....Public purpose or — profits?
Peoples Dispatch
“Capitalist governments treat the health of people as a cost and not as a fundamental right”
Muhammed Shabeer
8 comments:
They treat the health CARE of people as a cost... and it is...
Its cheaper to keep yourself in best shape possible thru diet and exercise e.g....
If people are healthy, then the "health of people" would be a real asset... if people are not very healthy then that real asset isnt worth as much...
No health care system in the world could've handled the tragedy that has befallen Italy.
The problem, or more appropriately the crime, is that they failed to act when they had the chance.
Look at pathetic Greece which has a lousy health care system thanks to 10 years of austerity. They acted fast and have so far been, relatively, spared the tragedy of Italy.
And a bloody statistical note: If both the governments of the US and Canada had moved to contain just 2 weeks sooner than they did, the cases would be 90% less than they currently are... let alone the deaths :(
Preparedness is a matter of having priorities. Is very clear what US priorities are.
For all we know 90% of US dead are not even citizens...
"For all we know 90% of US dead are not even citizens..."
Most recorded coronavirus deaths are of people who have tested positive and then later having died in a hospital/nursing home.
What do you reckon the likelihood of a non citizen in the US having access to coronavirus testing, let alone hospital care?
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