Thomas Szasz on Socialism in Health Care
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The health care debate is fundamentally broken, argues the great psychiatry skeptic Thomas Szasz, because it assumes a flawed premise. Namely, that "diseases require treatment, so the thing to do is to avoid diseases so you don't need treatment."
Szasz ties this to the problem of socialism in health care. Because of the way we think about disease, we have a health care system that removes control from individuals and gives it to state-enabled doctors and insurance companies. In psychology, for example, "diseases are no longer defined by pathologists but are defined essentially by a political process."
This has lead to, among other things, more expensive health care. Szasz offers seven reasons why, many having to do with the way we think about disease, how it should be treated, and the relationship between citizens and medicine.
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The cost has been steadily rising--it has nothing to do with it being a for-profit system.
bsadewitz 1 month ago
Don't we all just want affordable good Healthcare? It looks like if we don't get out of this for profit system, the cost will double in 10 years with less care.
forty911 2 months ago
I'm sorry I believed the conventional wisdom (AKA pabulum) which reduced Dr Szasz's position to "all mental disease is socially constructed." This is false. The good doctor simply examines the philosophical underpinnings of the modern therapeutic culture and finds them cobbled and wanting. Good stuff.
somercet1 2 months ago
It is always a great pleasure to hear or read Dr. Szasz, one of the great modern intellectuals.
nicmart 2 months ago