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what you think life in general is like is not important here, really. this is a question of law, a question of rights as defined through law, a question of what policies should follow from those premises. and it is about the simple fact that the health system in the united states is an expression of class war, nothing more nothing less.
you would be free to imagine "life" as having no guaratees or whatever in the context of universal access to basic health care just as much as you are now.
most aspects of life would unfold as they do now around you.
all that would change is that basic health care would stop being a prerogative of class and become available to everyone.
you could continue to conflate economic position and something essential about who you are, who others are. you could continue to effectively argue that the materially disadvantaged do not deserve the same access to health care that you do. so could say whatever.
what would change is that these views would become the parlor game that they should be.
they shouldn't be built into the way actual health care is and is not delivered.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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