No major reforms anywhere in sight

A little rant regarding labor, unions, the Employee Free Choice Act, and Health Care Reform.. And also a small clarification in regards to my video: Actually MOST people are in favor of single payer healthcare, nationalized healthcare benefits and so on, but our mass media would have you believe otherwise. Virtually every person I talk with, our patients in other words, are in favor of MAJOR reforms, regardless of what the media is saying.

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[55ella2007k]

jumpnjflash: exactly. But virtually the entire Congress is to blame as well, because they are all paid off by the huge insurance lobby and big pharma.

[kjack5]

I will start with the last thing you said first; --I think we should have a single payer supplemental. If you are rich or upper middleclass you should be able to afford most medical bills.

The middleclass should be able to aford to pay about half of their medical bills.

The poor maybe 0-25%, depending on income, should go toward a medical bill,-they could do all that and keep the medicare that we already pay and just jack it up a little to take on these new costs!

[55ella2007k]

@kjack5: I think, I understand what you are getting at. Only, I believe that single payer should be across the board for ALL basic and catastrophic coverage. You've got to have enough money in the system for this work. Private insurance, on the other hand, COULD function as supplemental coverage for anything ELECTIVE, such as cosmetic surgery.

[valhala56]

I watched the 1974 Sci Fi movie "Rollerball" which predicted that a few major corporations controlling vital resources ruled the world.

Like the Ancient Romans the movie has a gladitoral like game called Rollerball to entertain the Roman "Plebs" to distract them from the control of the corporations.

Ironic how movies like this one, Soylent Green & the unoffical Peak Oil movie the Mad Max guessed our time so well.

[stratvic]

Only under the most extreme and rare cases in a one company remote town would they have a lot of power. But people can move or start their own business.

What do you have against Indians and Chinese? Don't they deserve good jobs if they are equally capable? Shouldn't we embrace jobs going to the poorest and most in need.

The middle class will be no more likely destroyed by employing efficient labour than employing efficient grain harvesters.

Small employers are crushed by govt regulation.

[55ella2007k]

@stratvic: once you destroy the middle class in ANY county, then you destroy it's consumer base along with it. Not to mention, that small employers are being crushed by the multinationals, because they simply cannot compete with them.

[55ella2007k]

@stratvic: about employers NOT having all the power, that may be true in some instances, but not when it comes to big industries. What about the outsourcing of manufacturing + IT to low wage countries? Are employees supposed to move to India/China to find better opportunities? This is a global race to the bottom. Plant closures (because cheaper labor can be found overseas) mean entire communities are uprooted. Ask the people of Flint, Michigan. You need to look at the global trends.

[jumpnjflash]

In a recent speech Obama said that if he were starting a health care system from scratch that the single payer system would be the best. He said that the way things are now though that ""that would be too disruptive". Disruptive??? yeah to the insurance companies. So since Oboma don't have what it takes to do what is right for the American people the insurance companies win again and the $400 billion these companies take out of the system each year cannot be used to expand care to everyone.

[kjack5]

As far as unions go-we ought to make up some fancy name-' workers coming out day'-or something like that.

You could call all your fellow workers and tell them you are starting a 'workers coming out day'-just make sure your boss doesn't know because he might escort you out of the building by trying to pull you out by pulling on your ear-in which case you should sue him for assulting your ear!