Democratic Rising Star Kamala Harris On Trump Care: 'Don't Take Our Stuff.' There's Only One Problem: It's Not Your Stuff.
Needless to say, this is imbecilic.
Kamala Harris is right: nobody will be “losing” their health care. They didn’t “leave it on the bus,” because it’s not a physical commodity. And it was never “their stuff.”
Those on Medicaid had a grant from the government, taken from redistributed money, to help pay for their health care, which they obtained by pressuring doctors to provide it at low reimbursement rates. It wasn’t “theirs” any more than unemployment benefits are “yours” or welfare is “yours” or any other redistributionist outcome is “yours.”
Health care is a series of goods and services that belong to someone else until you pay for them in an exchange mutually agreed by the two sides. My wife is a doctor. Her labor is not “your stuff.” That would make her an indentured servant. She has sunk some nine years of her life into becoming a doctor — four years of college, four years of medical school, and now she’s just completed her first year of residency. That means we’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on her education, and she’s spent countless hours working, away from home, studying, and the like.
That work is not “yours.” It isn’t Kamala Harris’.
Kamala Harris
Americans won't "lose" their health care. It's not like we left it on the bus. The Republicans are taking it from us.
Don't take our stuff.
Americans won't "lose" their health care. It's not like we left it on the bus. The Republicans are taking it from us.
Don't take our stuff.
Needless to say, this is imbecilic.
Kamala Harris is right: nobody will be “losing” their health care. They didn’t “leave it on the bus,” because it’s not a physical commodity. And it was never “their stuff.”
Those on Medicaid had a grant from the government, taken from redistributed money, to help pay for their health care, which they obtained by pressuring doctors to provide it at low reimbursement rates. It wasn’t “theirs” any more than unemployment benefits are “yours” or welfare is “yours” or any other redistributionist outcome is “yours.”
Health care is a series of goods and services that belong to someone else until you pay for them in an exchange mutually agreed by the two sides. My wife is a doctor. Her labor is not “your stuff.” That would make her an indentured servant. She has sunk some nine years of her life into becoming a doctor — four years of college, four years of medical school, and now she’s just completed her first year of residency. That means we’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on her education, and she’s spent countless hours working, away from home, studying, and the like.
That work is not “yours.” It isn’t Kamala Harris’.
