[ExI] morality

spike at rainier66.com spike at rainier66.com
Thu May 18 15:14:56 UTC 2023


...> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat


On Thu, 18 May 2023 at 14:19, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> I follow an ethical system I call sometruism.  ... people benefit from your self-sacrificing capitalism.
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> spike
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Your comment points out the failure of health care in the US.

<https://time.com/6279956/americans-dying-young/>
Quotes:
Why Americans Are Dying So Young
By Laudan Aron and Gavin Yamey    May 16, 2023

Life expectancy in America fell sharply in 2020. It fell again in 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic certainly played a role, but that’s not the whole story...
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>...It is clear that in some cases profit leads to bad results.

BillK

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That's only part of the story BillK.  

The biggest reason life expectancies in the USA are declining is that we are collectively ending prohibition on drugs.  So... drugs are killing a lot of young people now.  Fentanyl takes over 100K proles a year.  Along with all those drug deaths comes death by violence, which often accompanies drug use.

We think of medical care for profit as a bad thing, but somebody hasta pay for the doctors and hospitals, otherwise they go out of business, as did the hospital where I was born, leading indirectly to the untimely death of my own second cousin (he didn't drive, his local hospital within walking distance closed up shop, adios amigo of long term (15 years) congestive heart failure, age 62.)

If we say government should pay for medicine, what happens when the government goes chapter 11, as the US government is on the verge of being in less than two weeks?  The doctors' med school loan payments are still coming.  Then who pays?  

spike




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