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imo if he wanted to "cure blindness" he would have paid to fly the people to a country with socialized medicine (for less money than he paid to "cure" their blindness) and advocate for a system that could prevent their blindness in the first place
That's kind of fucked, forcing another country to pay for those expensive operations (and I don't think you can just do that). I agree that relying on generous millionaires is not the way to go though
tbf most countries charge for foreign patients to use their system, but tbb if he was shedding a light on what a more socialized system looks like would unsour a lot of americans' view on it
personal anecdote but most of the people around me believe that all socialized medicine happens to be is waiting lines/lists, death panels, and "state-assisted death"