Re: SEIU & health care
On Jan 30, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
But here’s what I don’t understand: How could single-payer be won without a radical defeat of insurance interests? And are not
“insurance interests” radically entangled with almost every other major
element of u.s. capital?
Well yeah, but: 1) the big holders of financial assets are life
insurance companies, not health insurance companies; there’s overlap,
but they’re not identical; 2) insurance is big, but it’s not
dominant, and industrial capital might want to have its health
insurance costs socialized; and 3) sometimes capital loses.
Doug