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If everyone had access to healthcare the net benefit of treating the mental illness and other disabilities holding them back would easily cover the cost of the healthcare itself. (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 6 months ago by Daft_ish to c/showerthoughts

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[–] chonglibloodsport 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

We have health care in Canada yet still lots of street homeless people. They aren’t getting adequate care at all, yet the cost of caring for them exceeds the average person by many times. Many of them are on a first name basis with all the paramedics and other first responders due to how often they’re taken to the emergency room.

[–] Daft_ish 9 points 6 months ago

Ok, but, I never said universal healthcare would solve homelessness. In America we have the same cost except we've made it illegal to be homeless and pay to keep them in prison.

[–] darctiger88 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Same in the UK :/ although I’d never want an American style healthcare system

[–] Alpha71 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You guys are getting close to it though. With your "Two Tier" system, You've slowly almost choked the public side of health care to death.

[–] darctiger88 1 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately the Conservative groups in this country want us to have a fully privatised system. They’re already working to rid the country of mentally ill people, disabled people or anyone who could be a “drain”. There’s so much rhetoric at the moment about mentally ill people or those with ADHD and Autism receiving benefits I’m actually scared, they’ve made sure that the waitlist for therapy is a year long. I was forced to go private for my therapy or wait “up to 36 months”. I was suicidal and my mum couldn’t risk us waiting, so she sold half of our land to a builder to pay for it :/