Of course you are a libertarian as well.
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airrow@hilariouschaos.com 8 months agopoint is you can have more beds and staff and nurses… if you aren’t impoverishing the population with taxes and regulations (economics 101). It was an artificially created crisis on top of another
barsquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
airrow@hilariouschaos.com 8 months ago
you make that sound like liking freedom is a bad thing, while I’m sure at the same time would oppose things like chattel slavery
barsquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Of course a libertarian only has false dichotomies to respond with.
airrow@hilariouschaos.com 8 months ago
well, what position do you like in contrast? I could try to mention some of the problems with such positions. Today the fruits of over-regulation of healthcare should be obvious with the doctor shortages and unaffordability and medical bankruptcy and such that exist.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s simply bullshit. You can’t snap your fingers and get medical staff. Nurses were getting giant pay increases because there weren’t enough of them. Doctor’s and nurses were also getting COVID at an alarming rate, which was taking many of them out.
I didn’t know where you’re getting your information, but you’ve been misinformed.
airrow@hilariouschaos.com 8 months ago
The doctor shortage is part of a trend, look up “doctor shortage” on a search engine, for example here is a random article: “Facing a severe physician shortage, feds offer loan forgiveness for some doctors, nurses” cbc.ca/…/ottawa-student-loan-forgiveness-doctors-…
What I’m saying is: what causes this? The cause is pretty clear: regulations of the industry. It takes too much licensing and costs to become a doctor or nurse, so people don’t choose to do it. This is artificially created with all kinds of government regulations. Then, governments also regulated what people could do during the time of “covid” with mandated lockdowns, leading to further shortages. None of these shortages needed to exist but were created through artificial government regulation. So the “shortages” really had nothing to do with “covid”, we could have and should have had more than capacity to deal with a “pandemic”, and this talking point should have not existed (it was artificially created).
The motive for some of these measures is financial, as the working class lost money during the lockdowns while the richest gained: “The billionaire boom: how the super-rich soaked up Covid cash” ft.com/…/747a76dd-f018-4d0d-a9f3-4069bf2f5a93
ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah we should really get rid of those pesky regulations. There would have been plenty of doctors if we just let anyone who decides to call themselves a doctor start practicing medicine.
airrow@hilariouschaos.com 8 months ago
unironically yes! it’s done with programming and many things! What happens is… you, personally, won’t go to any doctor unless they have gone through rigorous training at top schools and you’ll pay top dollar for it. other people, like poor people who may be dying with less options, can get more economical options that may work for them. It’s actually sad more people don’t question things and complain about how expensive things are and how bad of care they get while ignoring the elephant in the room…