• fed [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    China most definitely has an issue with healthcare debt/bankruptcies lol???? And where are you in the US where you can't easily go to a doctor/ER? (obviously, you'll get fucked money-wise, but general access to care normally is not an issue I've heard about, just the debt resulting)

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-healthcare-debt/china-healthcare-costs-forcing-patients-into-crippling-debt-idUSKCN0ZQ03A

    https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-020-05551-5

    http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/2012-07/11/content_15568517.htm

    http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-05/17/content_12522497.htm

    • HarryLime [any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      It's not my job to answer for this or that policy decision that China has. I'm sure that if I did more research on this, I'd find the healthcare situation to be complicated and evolving and not at all black and white, just like with every other gotcha bit of trivia people use to try to attack them. Socialism isn't defined by one policy or issue. I've already given you plenty of information to argue for why China is a socialist state.

      • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        It’s not my job to answer for this or that policy decision that China has.

        Not taking a side in this debate, but honestly I find the "it's not my job!" retort fucking lazy and sad.

        Wasn't you're job to get into a debate in the first place, nothing on this forum is "your job". If someone brings something up you can respond to it or not, but saying that it's not literally part of your professional responsibilities isn't a fucking excuse for a lack of a response. I'd respect people more if they just said "I can't be arsed to do this".

        • HarryLime [any]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          The reason I'm saying "it's not my job" is because I have enough intellectual humility to understand that I don't know, and can't know, every good or bad thing that's happening in China. I'm not the one trying to deligitimize their claim to being a socialist state based on one potential policy.

          • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            I’m not the one trying to deligitimize their claim to being a socialist state based on one potential policy.

            No but you are trying to legitimize their claim by posting a bunch of info. That’s sort of a “job” you took on there.

            FYI I’m mostly agreeing with you in this discourse. Just hate the fucking “it’s not my job” bs. If that’s really how you feel just abandoned this whole endeavor and go touch some fucking grass.