Efficiency and fairness

Misty 2022-01-04 08:01:38

The purpose of social security is to provide basic subsistence protection, and medical treatment is definitely one of the basic subsistence protections. It is mainly the poor who need protection. Fairness should be given priority over efficiency.

The U.S. medical system should be the most efficient in the world, and the level is also the highest. It is just unfair, especially for the uninsured (not just the poor, including a large part of the middle class, especially small business owners and freelancers). ).

The medical systems in Canada and Western Europe are fairly fair, and almost everyone is guaranteed, but the main problem is the long waiting time for non-critical treatment. For the rich, if you are in a hurry, you can go to the United States and pay for yourself. For the poor, this is much better than nothing.

The biggest benefit of universal health insurance is that everyone will be checked if they are not sick, and they will be seen early if they have minor illnesses. In this way, while the overall cost of the medical system is greatly reduced, the overall health of citizens is much better than that of a system that only looks at serious illnesses like the United States. While sacrificing the efficiency of some cases, the overall efficiency of society is higher.

Another advantage of medical security is that the poor have a more peaceful mentality and the crime rate is low. This is much cheaper than hiring police bodyguards to protect the rich in prisons.

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