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stormelemental13 t1_jdsd42w wrote

Reply to comment by readerOP in Private doctors in India are protesting against 'Right to health' bill. by pinkcheems

No one has a right to another person's labor. If you think everyone should have access to emergency care, fine, put together a public health option via government run facilities, ala NHS, or through government insurance, ala Canada.

You don't just declare that people have right to demand care from private citizens and that you'll figure out a way to pay for it, maybe, someday.

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henryptung t1_jdsi2di wrote

>No one has a right to another person's labor

On the contrary, everyone has a right to purchase at prevailing market rates - that's what a market is. It's also what the government will pay (MRP) for care, but it's apparently not enough.

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pkb369 t1_jdsrqeg wrote

> On the contrary, everyone has a right to purchase at prevailing market rates

Except that is a deal agreed by both parties. In this case the deal is only agreed by one side (the government). The labourer has the right to refuse if they deem their value is not worth the labour.

Consider you currently do a job that pays 100k pa, but now its government run and since the minimum wage is 50k pa, they pay you that. Would you still keep working there?

This is just a broad example, I have no idea what the rates that the doctors are demanding vs what the government is willing to provide (and it makes sense as per the other commenters that the doctors will try to take advantage and jack up the price than what they usually charge because the government would pay if it was a 2 way agreed deal)

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readerOP t1_jdtibi9 wrote

Except it is and part of it comes from all the subsidies and concessions private health care received from the government on agreement that they would aid the government in implementing policies as such, The protest is from useless mba's not actual doctors. if these assholes go out of business there are more than ample opportunities for doctors to be immediately reemployed. Please don't try to feed us the american health care bullshit.

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henryptung t1_jdth0u5 wrote

>Except that is a deal agreed by both parties.

Yeah, labor requires an employment contract between parties to operate. Buying medical services or goods doesn't.

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Guy_with_Numbers t1_jdsuzc7 wrote

No one has a right to market their labor as they wish either. Even US hospitals are legally forced to provide emergency healthcare without payment. Healthcare anywhere has tons of regulations, govts have a lot of leeway for restricting private entities in that industry.

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