> It was about a family that decided to relocate to be closer to their son's doctors at Duke.
It was not exactly a decision, leaving a 3 years old child for 6 months in a medical environment tends to be a rather hurtful option for everybody.
> They also decided to stop working during their son's treatment to better take care of him.
Outside the US, there are UHC countries with (paid) caretaker leave, or allowing parents to use (paid) sick leaves to take care of young children if needs arises. In Sweden, they could have taken up to 364 days at 80% salary (and a further 550 days at 75% salary). And even without that, this would generally be protected circumstances: the employer would not be allowed to fire the employee for taking unpaid leave to take care of his/her child, not without taking significant (monetary) risks.
> By starting to talk about the need for universal health care, the entire conversation changes away from what was a simple story about the power of social media to help people.
I'd expect that people in here try to get to the root of the problem instead of praising band-aids. Praising band-aids is good, but insufficient: band-aids are a short-term solution to potentially systemic problems.
It was not exactly a decision, leaving a 3 years old child for 6 months in a medical environment tends to be a rather hurtful option for everybody.
> They also decided to stop working during their son's treatment to better take care of him.
Outside the US, there are UHC countries with (paid) caretaker leave, or allowing parents to use (paid) sick leaves to take care of young children if needs arises. In Sweden, they could have taken up to 364 days at 80% salary (and a further 550 days at 75% salary). And even without that, this would generally be protected circumstances: the employer would not be allowed to fire the employee for taking unpaid leave to take care of his/her child, not without taking significant (monetary) risks.
> By starting to talk about the need for universal health care, the entire conversation changes away from what was a simple story about the power of social media to help people.
I'd expect that people in here try to get to the root of the problem instead of praising band-aids. Praising band-aids is good, but insufficient: band-aids are a short-term solution to potentially systemic problems.