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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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.
Lemmy is a liberal echo chamber as seen by the support for the do nothing democrats.
They lose elections intentionally. People are fed up and don’t give a shit about government or democracy anymore. Dangerous times ahead. We’re going towards more violence.
And our rulers are entirely responsibility for making peaceful reform impossible violence will become inevitable.
