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Panelist argues health care should be reorganized as a commons, removing insurers and billing
Summary
At a Missoula DSA panel, organizer David Quattrucci argued for 'health communism'—a post‑capitalist model where clinics don't bill, insurers are eliminated, and care centers on social determinants like housing and food.
David Quattrucci, a community organizer working with a federally qualified health center in Missoula, told the audience that under capitalism "health isn't a right. It's a sorting mechanism." He described health care under the current system as organized to ration care through billing codes, networks and denials and proposed a post‑capitalist alternative grounded in what he…
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