I think this is too simple. It's not taking the systems that occur in society into consideration. I think you should look into taking public health courses and maybe women's studies courses. This may help expand your thoughts a bit.
I've taken them, they're borderline worthless.
Maybe the ones you've taken were. They were thought provoking at my institution.
I want to help people while also doing well for myself. I'm not going to go broke to make a difference though- my family is more important to me than any patient, and if the system expects them to suffer so that I can help others, then I'll pack my bags and go elsewhere. If I can make money while saving lives and solving complex problems, I'll certainly take it over just plain making money. But I'm not going to spend 400k on school, suffer long hours and high liability, be expected to handle the stresses and rigors of being a physician, and not get paid well for it. Screw that.
I see what you're saying. But, I don't think that you'd be put in a position where you'd have to work for no money.
You can't give to others without taking from someone else. I'm fine with paying taxes, but I put blood, sweat, and tears into my education. No one has a right to my mind and my skills, though I do believe I have a duty to act in emergencies- but that is a matter of personal ethics, I don't believe all should be forced to my standards.
I thought they were useless because they didn't take into account the possibility that disparities between the sexes may be due to biological differences. Such a blank-slate, pseudo-Marxist "analysis" is incomplete and disingenuous at best. There are issues, obviously. But not all inequality is evidence of oppression.
Yeah. And I'm saying this as someone who had major health issues in childhood that were not addressed because my parents could not pay for medical issues that weren't emergent. The vast majority of the world and the vast majority of human time did not have access to health- it is a modern luxury (maybe luxury has a negative connotation, but I just mean a service that you don't have an inalienable right to). Just like having access to housing is a luxury. I believe our society is wealthy enough to create a health system that provides health to everyone and that it is something we should aim to do because of human decency, not because it's a right.
I wouldn't be a physician for less than 200k a year. In just tuition and lost wages from my prior career, becoming a physician will have cost me over one million dollars- excluding student loan interest, lost retirement contributions, etc. To break even before retirement age, after taxes, that's the wage I actually need. I'm not even asking for a premium, just to break even. If society wants to take that from me, **** it, I'll walk. They aren't willing to pay me, I'll go into management our consulting, medicine isn't worth the pain without at least a net zero payoff IMO.
I think I see where our thinking differs. You're thinking on a personal level. When I think of healthcare rights, I'm thinking about the systems in this country that give better healthcare access to some and not others based on a plethora of factors. I'm thinking about the systems that cause the poor to live in food deserts and have more liquors stores in their neighborhoods, while not providing them with access to good medical services. That's a set up for failure, in my opinion. I agree with you that you shouldn't have to struggle, financially. But, I think that needs to be fixed in other ways rather than just turning people away for being poor when they need the care. Maybe med school should be less expensive, maybe residents should be paid more. I don't have the answers though.
Mhmm. I was actually going over the math with some lab mates yesterday.
Social justice is a concept that is morally lacking- just for whom and how? Should the extremely skilled and talented, those that start businesses, etc not be compensated for their exceptional talents and skills? Is it right to take from them to give someone dropping fries at McDonald's that never invested time in themselves and never intends to do anything with their life?
Like I said, I'm down a million dollars on this investment. I expect to break even. Society owes me a million and some change if they want to talk about cutting my wages to benefit others. And even then I'd expect a pretty decent compensation package that congress wouldn't **** with every time a budget deal came along and the republicans felt like making some cuts- which, oh wait, will never happen.
I had a rough life, and was an idiot teenager to boot. But that's what really grinds my gears- my suffering motivated me. So many others just let it beat them down our become complacent. It's not my duty to pay for the fact that they don't want to better themselves.
Admittedly I wasn't really talking about healthcare. But yes, I won't insult your intelligence by assuming you don't understand how biological differences between the sexes influence behavior.
Healthcare cannot be a human right, because rights cannot force others into your service. For the same reason you can't have a right to someone providing you with food (because someone needs to be compensated, food doesn't just come from nowhere), you can't have a right to healthcare.
If health care is to be a right, who will provide that care? Oh right, physicians. Now, what if I refuse to provide that care because I am not paid enough? By your definition, I have just violated that person's rights. But the only alternative is that I am forced to accept the compensation they have provided me with, and work under conditions I did but consent to. You can't give someone the right to health care without violating the rights of a great number of providers.
You clearly don't love Nietzsche as much as your name proclaims lol
This statement doesn't mean anything unless you un-package it.
It also doesn't give them the right to demand basic care from me.
That probably occurred at your institution. I never claimed that all inequality is evidence of oppression, but you have to be careful of writing off things as *just* inequality due to random or biological factors. A lot of the time, it's more complicated than that.
I'm not the one writing off variables here. The biology question is often ignored, if not outright denied, entirely
I think you're better than this.
But that's what I'm saying- if I can refuse, health care is not, in fact, a right.
