Literally this weekend we were in the hospital with my ailing father, and my 9 yo daughter was shocked to learn the hospital cost money (upon hearing us joke about getting as many juice cups as we wanted bc “we’d be paying for them”). She sat there thoughtfully for a moment and then said slowly “… but if hospitals help people, why do we make people pay for them? What if people can’t pay, how will they get better to go back to do other things?” And then I had to explain capitalism and healthcare 😭
Honestly it was sort of a system shock to be reminded how plainly and clearly “good” the idea of universal healthcare is—that a child would intrinsically understand it and assume that we, the adults, would obviously have implemented it.
Honestly it was sort of a system shock to be reminded how plainly and clearly “good” the idea of universal healthcare is—that a child would intrinsically understand it and assume that we, the adults, would obviously have implemented it.