Is it ‘immoral’ that people can go into PERSONAL bankruptcy over MEDICAL debt?
That’s the system we have in the US right now. The system is slowly cracking under its own weight. Recently, I have seen people making a MORAL argument for universal health coverage – that it is immoral for such a rich country to have people going bankrupt due to medical debt.
Is this really a moral issue, though?
Regardless, it keeps getting bigger, and I bet we will have nationalized health care eventually, just due to political trends.
February 5th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
In aboriginal cultures, when the man of the family died or was to old and frail to protect his family’s possessions, the younger members of the tribe would strip the family of all its possessions.
We haven’t progressed all that much in the centuries, now have we.