Newsweek Discovers Why Healthcare is an American Privilege, Not a Right
Newsweek's recent opinion piece, "Subsidies Are Not Health Care Reform," critically asserts that pouring governmental financial assistance into healthcare isn’t actually fixing the underlying issues. The article argues that such subsidies merely prop up an inefficient and expensive system, rather than addressing its core problems. One might, however, wonder why this 'opinion' feels so familiar,
almost like a recurring nightmare. Perhaps because the same political class decrying subsidies often votes in lockstep for other, far less scrutinized, financial handouts. While Newsweek opines on the philosophical purity of healthcare reform, they conveniently omit the politicians who, for example, took millions from pharmaceutical and insurance lobbies, then voted against universal healthcare
initiatives. Or, perhaps, the billions allocated to foreign military aid, such as the $14.5 billion cleared for Israel in November 2023 via HR 6126, which passed with bipartisan support (source: Congress.gov). That's a sum critics argue could profoundly impact domestic healthcare access, rather than simply 'subsidizing' its dysfunction. Funny how some subsidies are more equal, and less 'reform,'
than others when it comes to media scrutiny.