Re: Re: SEIU praises Romney’s lame-ass health scheme
On Jan 29, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Jim Straub wrote:
Another example of us foolishly supporting the expansion of
healthcare coverage under the existing system while it still
exists, as opposed to rallying the masses behind far better health
care plans proposed by the spartacist league, kropotkin, left
business observer and jim straub…. ie international workers
revolution for socialism!
Tee-hee, Jim, but really - what are the politics of grafting yet
another stupid structure on top of the stupid structure that is our
health care financing system? The hodge-podge of conflicting and/or
overlapping systems is a major part of the problem. The Mass and
Calif plans require the uninsured, under the threat of substantial
financial penalities, to buy their own health insurance. If that
isn’t the craziest fucking thing I’ve heard in a long time, I don’t
know what is: they don’t have the money, remember? A union that cared
about the working class as a whole would be pressing for a universal
system - that’s hardly pie in the sky, since variations on that theme
work all over the world. Except here in the land of the free.
Doug