This one’s a few days old, but I thought it was a good read.
[…] He dismissed the “idea that the American model of private insurance is uniquely evil and engaged in acts of social violence because it denies people too much treatment,” maintaining that all insurance systems, public or private, ration care.
But as I noted in the earlier FAIR article, the Commonwealth Fund (NBC, 9/19/24) found that the US system does, in fact, stand out among other peer nations, ranking “as the worst performer among 10 developed nations in critical areas of healthcare.” Those areas the US falls short in include “preventing deaths, access (mainly because of high cost) and guaranteeing quality treatment for everyone.” The rest of the world is doing better than us on these scores, contrary to Douthat.
Americans see the systems working in the rest of the world and know that the United States could have a better healthcare regime, but that corporate and government leaders simply choose not to.
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Try all they want, they’re not putting this cat back in the bag.
They will. They’ll start saturating the news about immigrants eating cats, or about how liberals are trying to turn your kids into transvetites, or something to turn groups within the classes against each other… and it’ll work. It has before. Remember Occupy Wall Street? It started out with conservative right wingers side-by-side with lesbian feminists, and it didn’t take any effort at all before all of the infighting destroyed the movement. Since then, the blue collar vs liberal rhetoric has been amped up so much, fucking Trump got elected a second time.
This too shall pass, and at the end, you’ll be paying premiums for no benefits because it’ll be illegal to not to.
They mocked “Sheeple” until it was widely accepted as absurd, but Sheeple is the fundamental truth. Led as lambs to slaughter.
This is different. This is system is literally killing people. They’re not gonna be distracted by stupid shit this time. OWS people lost their houses not their lives. Healthcare people are losing their lives.
I remember OWS, I was a part of it. My mom gets all her news from liberal MSM tv news, and despite me physically being there she believed the false TV narrative over my own. I fucking hate the media. I’ve hated them since they manufactured consent post 9/11.
I really hope you’re right, but I fear the only people learning from history are the powerful. They look at what happened during the French Revolution, and what success Goebbles had, and how, and which of China’s and Russia’s approaches work, and are pretty effectively executing it. Again, my most recent proof is the last presidential election (not that Kamala is some sort of leftist champion, but Democrats have been lagging in the propaganda game for decades).
I hope you’re right, but I think you’re not. Lemmy is an echo chamber, and I like the echo, but I’m not under any illusions that it represents the majority. Luigi supporters may be noisy, but I think they’re a minority.
Sorry man, I used up all of my optimism in 2020. I’ll believe something is changing after it changes, and even then I’ll wait until it’s done, and not overthrown at 0 hour by a conservative supreme court.
