Somehow I’ve become a bit more tuned in to the news than I was for a while. As a result a few stories and tidbits struck me. For one, according to this, 1 in 6 Minneapolis public school kids will go without permanent housing at some point this year. If that’s the annual statistic, I wonder what the rate of kids in Minneapolis who have been homeless is. In other news, I heard a report this morning about the auto industry being in trouble money-wise, all this bullshit about high labor costs and so on. Fuck that. Here’s a simple answer. Nationalize health care. That shifts a cost from the companies and lowers the cost of healthcare making for more efficient use of medical dollars. Not to mention better health outcomes at least as judged in terms of health inequality. My wife pointed out that there’s already rhetoric about the economy being marshaled to limit expectations (the Democrats do this dance with the Republicans; the latter are crazy and send loads of money up in smoke - and of course into their and their cronies’ bank accounts - while the former now talk about balanced budgets and austerity; the party of the pistol-whipping vs the party of the firing squad), and that this is bullshit: healthcare is economic. Education is too. Etc etc etc.
November 18, 2008
… did I turn the damn radio on for?
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The most annoying thing about the UAW’s terrible deal with the automakers last year was the complete sellout on health care. Just as health care was starting to become a “conversation” that could have been heading toward a single-payer solution, the union with the most leverage — the one that could have possibly forced corporations to back single-payer — totally caved and took on that ridiculous self-managed plan, the one that is bound to fail because the big three aren’t contributing enough and because unions suck at running stuff like that. What a nightmare. That helped make national health care a nonissue, selling out the 50 million people who don’t have insurance and the 100 million more who have crappy or expensive insurance. So much for solidarity.
(By the way, hope your well.)
Comment by Eric — November 18, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
Yo, your anti spam box wipes out my posts nearly every time. Real pain.
Comment by troutsky — November 19, 2008 @ 11:12 am