Yeah, I think you’re missing the point. Cancer is a problem for the person or people who get it. Framing it as a problem for employers completely frames the issue wrong. This is the problem with capitalism, the people are treated like numbers, that either make profits go up or go down. That’s not a system we want to be a part of. The system is made up of people, that should be treated like human beings.
That’s not the point of the article. The point is to approach a new problem from the employer’s side. If the headline was, “Cancer causes a growing problem for employees”, we would all be saying, “No shit!”
And why approach it from the employer’s side? Because they’ve already covered the human side:
You really should read the article without prejudice. It even touches on how the cancer diagnosis might be tied to a lack of preventative medicine and care, both of which are caused by a lack of health insurance.
Also, framing the lack of healthcare as a burden on business is a really smart way to argue for universal healthcare, which seems to be what the article is arguing for if you read between the lines.
The truth is that a lot of people don’t care about others’ problems until those problems affect them. It isn’t right, but that’s humanity for you.
Yeah, I think you’re missing the point. Cancer is a problem for the person or people who get it. Framing it as a problem for employers completely frames the issue wrong. This is the problem with capitalism, the people are treated like numbers, that either make profits go up or go down. That’s not a system we want to be a part of. The system is made up of people, that should be treated like human beings.
That’s not the point of the article. The point is to approach a new problem from the employer’s side. If the headline was, “Cancer causes a growing problem for employees”, we would all be saying, “No shit!”
And why approach it from the employer’s side? Because they’ve already covered the human side:
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/31/gen-x-millennials-cancer-increase
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/09/cancer-treatments-jump-among-young-adults
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/19/cancer-colorectal-death-people-under-50
We dont want to approach the problem from the employers side. The employer doesn’t have a problem, the people do. See the difference?
You really should read the article without prejudice. It even touches on how the cancer diagnosis might be tied to a lack of preventative medicine and care, both of which are caused by a lack of health insurance.
Also, framing the lack of healthcare as a burden on business is a really smart way to argue for universal healthcare, which seems to be what the article is arguing for if you read between the lines.
The truth is that a lot of people don’t care about others’ problems until those problems affect them. It isn’t right, but that’s humanity for you.