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ck4829

(36,205 posts)
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 11:25 PM Dec 6

First thing that comes to mind - What does "World's Greatest Healthcare" mean to you? [View all]

Word association basically - Picture something in your head that is genuinely "world's greatest healthcare" and not sarcastic, but a healthcare system that is truly better than every other healthcare system, the best one that it could ever be, and the first thing you you picture in your head is...


16 votes, 3 passes | Time left: Unlimited
Choices (The best healthcare system would be one giving you the largest amount of choices in which medical professional to see, which hospitals you can go to, etc.)
1 (6%)
Equality (Doesn't matter if you have a skin rash or cancer, the best healthcare system would be the one most ignoring your ability to pay or your skin color and focusing on treating what's wrong)
8 (50%)
Humanity (The best healthcare system is the one in the greatest crusade against conditions and diseases, the best healthcare system would be the one seeing the eradication of smallpox and asking "How do we top that?")
0 (0%)
Improvement (The best healthcare system would be one that would be most dedicated to allowing people to modify and enhance human cognition and bodily function AKA transhumanism)
0 (0%)
Justice (The best healthcare system goes the most beyond treatment of the individual but also acts as an aggressive guardian for the society their patients live in against inequality, oppression, injustice, and corruption; which would also mean policing themselves against corruption that could taint them and takes a stand against laws/practices which could harm their patients)
2 (13%)
Life (The best healthcare system that puts quantity of life, quality of life, and dignity of life of their patients before anything else)
2 (13%)
Money (The best healthcare system is the one that is the best for obtaining/securing upward mobility for the people who work in it)
0 (0%)
Power (The best healthcare system is the one that is the most trusted to define what is right, what is wrong, what is healthy, sick, etc.)
0 (0%)
Sci-fi (The best healthcare system would be one that provides the most goods and services that are essentially indistinguishable from magic)
0 (0%)
Other/what (Write in and instead of repeating what someone else says, rec it instead, count it as a vote)
3 (19%)
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