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Healthcare on the line.

Seeded on Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:49 AM EDT
Read ArticleArticle Source: By Robert Kuttner / Huffington Post
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Fundamental vs Progressive Healthcare

The fundamental premise:
1.Healthcare is strictly personal, between patient and doctor, and without wider social relevance or value.
2.Healthcare is a privilege for the worthy, being those capable of affording and negotiating care.
3.Those without healthcare suffer by their own fault or indifference.
4.Healthcare is a form of species natural selection. Interference with this process is unnecessary and undesirable.
5.Private healthcare is medically superior to public programs.
6.Private healthcare is less expensive as costs rely on market dynamics.
7.America's healthcare system is the best in the world because of private systems.

The progressive premise:
1.Healthcare is not strictly personal. Natural disaster, epidemic, and public health exert great social relevance and cost.
2.Universal healthcare is a necessity, not a privilege, for America to maintain social and economic leadership.
3.Successful healthcare requires prevention and lifestyle education and encouragement.
4.Our species is a social, before animal, species. It is illogical to ignore the social dynamics of healthcare. These dynamics largely determine healthcare success.
5.The private healthcare economy is less important than the social dynamics and benefits of public healthcare.
6.America's private healthcare system is the most expensive health system on the planet and still leaves 30 million without care.
7.America's healthcare is 36th on the planet as measured by the medical community. Leading successful global healthcare systems are unanimously public systems.

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