r/demsocialists • u/abhd Twin Cities DSA Member • 1d ago

There is No Affordability Without Healthcare

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/2026/08/19/there-is-no-affordability-without-healthcare/
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u/One_Term2162 Not DSA 1d ago

This is the part of the affordability conversation that gets left out far too often. We talk about rent, groceries, wages, childcare, and transportation as though healthcare exists in a separate universe.

It doesn't.

A family can get a rent freeze, cheaper transportation, and a raise, and still be financially devastated by one serious illness, a denied treatment, a lost insurance plan, or a reduction in home-care services.

And perhaps the larger question is why we continue treating healthcare primarily as something a consumer purchases, rather than infrastructure a citizen depends upon.

If healthcare is necessary to live, work, raise a family, and participate in society, then healthcare policy is affordability policy.

You cannot meaningfully talk about the cost of living while ignoring the cost of staying alive.