@anarchopunk_girl That's not at all how I intended it and I think I misunderstood your point. I was trying to say that, if we are progressive as a society, we should be doing everything we can to make the lives of the chronically ill and disabled easier, including making all advanced medical care required accessible and free, and that our current regressive ableist culture stands in the way of that. It wasn't intended to say that what we did in the past was enough. It wasn't.
I don't understand why we would throw away what we have as far as medical technology goes because the economic and political paradigm has shifted. If anything, I feel like we should be doubling down on improving medical technology, rather than building fucking rocket ships for tourism.