Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:02:58 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Tackling Concerns of Independent Workers
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 03/25/13 23:35, Mike B. wrote:
> On 3/25/2013 10:27 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>> mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>>> Because the medical insurance industry is to make money, not
>>> keep anyone healthy, and they buy legislators, wholesale.
>>
>> Medical insurance is expensive because medical care is expensive.
>>
>> If medical care for the average person costs more than the average
>> person can afford, then no system of redistribution can solve the
>> problem.  Not socialism, not capitalism, not chanting "Yes We
>> Can." No system.  A way must be found to produce medical care less
>> expensively.  *Much* less expensively.  Either that or concede
>> that it's a luxury service intended only for the rich and
>> powerful.
>
> Very true.  Mathematically it might be arguable, but I don't feel
> like trying to determine if it is or not.  In practice it's true
> enough...which is why I consider "Obama-care" to be completely
> wrong-headed (though he isn't the one who went off the rails
> first...Congress was already headed down this dead-end when he got
> involved).
<snip>
I'll sort of agree. Instead, we should have Medicare for all, with ZERO
profits for the medical insurance companies.

If you disagree, I suggest you do the research, and tell the rest of us
what the total profits the medical insurance companies declared the last
few years.

Or, better, follow the UK model, and create a national health *service*,
where we the people own most of the hospitals, and the doctors and other
medical staff are on std. civil servant salaries, with no one earning
under poverty, and none of them earning hundreds of thousands or
millions a year... and, of course, not coming out of school owning
hundreds of thousands.

mark

--
"...Our nation can no more survive as half democracy and half oligarchy
than it could survive "half slave and half free". - Bill Moyers