healthcare should be entirely divorced from any concept of “cost”.

There will always be limits on how much effort we are able or willing to spend on keeping someone alive, improving their condition, or accomodating their needs. While expressing these limits in a single fungible currency that is also used to pay for mansions and video games is silly, considering the cost is necessary in some non-capitalist sense of the word.

At some point a nurse will go home and rest. At some point a farmer will stop tending more crops so people can be hospital workers instead of farmers while still having access to food, and go home to rest. At some point a scientist will be too miserable working as a medical researcher and go design a better solar panel instead. At some point a doctor will despair of finding a way to cure one patient and go cure five other patients whose conditions are just as severe but simply more treatable.

The cost of helping someone can become too great, and we need a language to coordinate our efforts and our limits. That is as true in anarchism as in state communism as in capitalism.

Fair enough, I guess I mixed up social policies and socialist policies. Got any recommendations aside from Das Kapital?