Lessons of Covid-19 I: Mercenary

When the Covid-19 virus invaded the United States, he found a prosperous sick and complaint. That being the case, the impact has been destructive. A clean lesson is a non-profit health system that is a weak point in the national defense against our disease. I will be evident analogy between the military health and defense.

Imagine that if you want, the Military of the United States works like our health system. It is analogous to rely on the current health system in mercenaries, although with a professional ethics code and loyalty to the nation. In normal times, health care system It is almost entirely mercenary: fights fighting for profits. This is not the disappearance of medical professionals, but those who control health care is a profit model chosen. Because the goal is gained, the health system works to reduce costs and maximize income. This means that the use of mercenaries: the use of minimum workers to work for workers, maintaining only the resources necessary for normal operations, including the greatest care and profitable contracts among the customers paid. This is a rational way to operate a market unit. But is it a good way to run a national military? Is this a sense that the United States changed from a military mercenary from a public military?

Aside from the usual problems of loyalty and reliability, based on the military model (non-profit), it would be a problem for the United States. A notable problem is that the United States requires a great strength to make long conflicts that we always choose. After all, national security must not match the most profitable military operations and requires reserving resources, such as reservations, non-profit military military will not be maintained. If the United States are based on a military mercenary, they would have many challenges in the crisis. It rides quickly to meet the challenge, to motivate mercenary forces (eg enough to protect everyone). These are, in fact, based on all the reasons why a country must have public military mercenaries. After all, the United States need a military, any threats that arise and do not gain the needs of limited strength. It is not surprising, therefore, our mercenary health systems riding analogous problem.

Focus on profits, the health system works with minimum resources and staff. Keeping the booking of medical professionals and the necessary resources for a crisis would deeply cut profits. The government must be stated, preserves some medical reserves, but that is, of course, the public sector in operation. Due to this thin operating operation that maximizes profits, it is like a mercenary health system: sick, when the battle becomes a full-scale war when they require booking and large resources. The health system usually addresses the problem of resources by assigning profits; Simple opponents to fight like a smart commercial commander who supports a win contractive. In the case of health, the rich can achieve the best health care while overcoming the poor. But in the case of national crisis, the answer must be a large scale: it is invasion and not only the usual fights. People face the same problem, mercenaries or health care provided by mercenaries must be able to be able to pay for protection.

We have a national military reason than the use of mercenary forces, which the military supports that all citizens should protect them and not only that allow them to hire their strength forces. The same principle should be applied to health care: Having a Medicenary system means that it depends on what can afford the survival of the citizens and that is not acceptable. If the State should protect all citizens equally from ISI and North Korea, we should accept that the State should protect all citizens Covid-19 and H1N1.

It could reasonably be argued that the military model adapts to pandemic and health care should be changed to address the pandemic threat, the nonprofit model must have daily medical issues. So, for example, everyone should have tests and treatments for Covid-19, but we should be on our own when it comes to getting flu, hepatitis or car accidents.

An answer is arguing that the State have the duties of the daily medical of citizens. If you use another analogy, manipulate pandemic manipulating the war, smaller threats are similar to small scale conflicts or police operations. We don’t, for example, expected to pay for the payment of police services to deal with crimes against them, because the crime is against them and not a pandemic crime.

This does not mean that the state has to pay everything. It is definitely thinking of someone’s breast implants or a statue to pay facial lifts. But the state is expected to pay, expecting to pay the status bill because a citizen wanted to see a military parade. That being the case, it should be medically necessary only. As long as we limit the duties of the military and local national police, health care obligations can also be limited. This can cause discussions about what is necessary, but these discussions can be placed in good faith.

It could be facilitated that people bring their health problems because of bad opportunities, which should not be the responsibility of the state. But the same argument would be applied to police and military. For example, police thought that he did not take enough measures to protect the car, they can refuse to do anything about the stolen. Or, as another example, if you are attacked and injured, you can refrain from helping you help.

If it is based on our national defense, it is based on our national defense strength.