Any health-care system that depends on employers or wages is going to
privilege the people with the highest-paid jobs (men) and take away
power from people who do the bulk of unwaged work (women).
The Affordable Care Act decoupled your ability to not perish of
preventable disease or misadventure from your relationship with your
employer, empowering you to leave a bad boss without risking death.
But because ACA required its users to pay cash into the system, it bound
women to abusive men just as surely as it bound employees to abusive
employers.
The human potential of a society must not be squandered by shackling good people to bad firms or bad husbands.
Single payer – the system overwhelming used in other developed
countries, who spend less per capita and deliver better health outcomes
than Americans suffer through – is the only just system.
Any health-care system that depends on employers or wages is going to
privilege the people with the highest-paid jobs (men) and take away
power from people who do the bulk of unwaged work (women).
The Affordable Care Act decoupled your ability to not perish of
preventable disease or misadventure from your relationship with your
employer, empowering you to leave a bad boss without risking death.
But because ACA required its users to pay cash into the system, it bound
women to abusive men just as surely as it bound employees to abusive
employers.
The human potential of a society must not be squandered by shackling good people to bad firms or bad husbands.
Single payer – the system overwhelming used in other developed
countries, who spend less per capita and deliver better health outcomes
than Americans suffer through – is the only just system.
