Title says it all. I’m in a country that has public health care, and in many aspects it is very good. Only downside is wait time. There’s also less and less funding every year, less and less quality, the whole process to destroy and later privatize what is a natural monopoly (such as water, electricity, etc) and a basic necessity for human life and dignity, and so on.
With that said, is it wrong for me to benefit from what is essentially a better service (because of factors mentioned above, not because private = “better”) because it is a capitalist enterprise? Same debate could arise from private energy companies, private transport providers, etc.
Yes.
You live in a society with socialized healthcare. You won! At least that battle, you may have many more to go. You want to purchase private healthcare via a capitalist system at the expense of the less fortunate? Are you bourgeois?
If you lived in the US or somewhere without public healthcare I’d say it would not be wrong. You have to live, after all. The same goes for options not provided for you socially such as dental. But you have a perfectly adequate socialist healthcare system at your disposal.