• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You forgot this part, before WW2:

    During the Great Depression, FDR considered making national health insurance part of his signature New Deal legislation — which would have made the US a pioneer — but those provisions were nixed to prioritize the Social Security retirement and disability programs, among others.

    So old people chose something that benefits themselves only over something that benefits everyone.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, penicillin wasn’t publicly available until 1941. So at that time, we barely had healthcare that was even worth paying for. I can understand why they deprioritized it.

      I think people forget we’ve had truly modern healthcare for less than a century