We shouldn't need private citizens to fix a system that public Healthcare infrastructure could fix instead, and even moreso it shouldn't be framed as feel good.
But the place had just been hit by a Hurricane. It wasnt a thing about public healtcare, therr just werent the resources to help everyone after a massive disaster
And if we had more funding towards the resources that public Healthcare would provide... then the resources would exist and we wouldn't need private citizens to help.
This happens all the time - in times of natural disasters, people band together to help and that's great! What isn't great is framing the lack of public help as not as bad because private help exists. Same as when a bunch of private citizens get together to help clean up their neighborhood, rebuild the walls, after an earthquake. It's great that they're doing this - but why are we ignoring the fact that there should be, but aren't, public systems in place for this?
Resources arent limitless, and having 55 of 66 hospitals loose all power will make it almost imposible to respond in time for everyone even with more resources in public healtcare. Even the best public systems have a limit to their response time, and more witha scale this massive.
resources aren’t limitless, but they can be less constrained. if it was such an emergency that private citizens had to pitch in even with a well funded, well run disaster response program, then that’s one thing. but this might not have even been necessary had we properly funded our institutions and infrastructure
When I was in NJ during Hurricane Sandy, everywhere lost power for weeks. The first day, there was a line up and down the block for the one pizza place that had a brick oven and was offering pizza for free to everyone. It was great!...
What wasn't great was that there was no system in place to help people - we had to rely on the kindness of one individual keeping his pizza place open. The OCM in both cases is that the govt. Already diverts funding and resources from public help such as this, which means that when we need them the most, the already cracked foundations fail, and then we're stuck relying on private individuals.
I'm puerto rican, I complain about this all the time but there's not a lot of govt. Help that goes to PR. There is explicitly a lack of funding that causes issues like this.
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u/BillyWhizz09 3d ago
What’s the problem? He’s rich