Raymond Lotta: Health Care Under Capitalism, Health Care Under Socialism

Raymond Lotta talks about health care under capitalism vs. health care under socialism (part of a Revolution Books webcast on 9.29.09: "Behind the Economic Crisis: System Failure and the Need for Revolution.")

Come to his speaking tour, "Everything you've been told about communism is wrong, capitalism is a failure, revolution is the solution!" UC Berkeley 10/8, NYU 10/26 & UCLA 10/29. Info at www.revcom.us

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[CloverfieldMonster95]

@ActionFitLife the government forcing you to give to the poor isn't compassionate at all.

[ActionFitLife]

Competition crap..I don't need anyone to pay me to take a shower. If we want to live in a modern, civil society then we need good healthcare..Healthcare based on need, compassion , rather than greed and capitalism. Capitalizing on people's sickness, profiting when people don't get rid of whatever ails them, in order to offer them a life time of expensive " treatments".

I'm currently studying medicine, and I'm not doing it for the money. I just want to make the world healthier, for everyone.

[Aleksi535]

@Pseudonym25 And how I wanted to be better than the next guy and he wants to better than us and so on... However, I told him that the only thing I want to be better than you is not in science and make lots of money and so on, but I want to better than you in being a human being and humanitarian. You should of seen how he just stopped talking and just said "yeah." We can't just talk. we can just set examples by doing some of things we talk about and believe in.

[Aleksi535]

@Aleksi535 So I rather teach sciences in a 3rd world country, where their would be no one to compete with and your work is appreciated by all. And make a daily living. We need the money and work for that, but we can't do things differently. And now, I have to work on the absorbance rate of oxy- and deoxyhemoglobin. You know what, I was talking to the produce manager of the Albertson, where I shop, and he told me the same thing. He was like how he wants to better than the next guy and how...

[Aleksi535]

@Pseudonym25 Why do this sort of competition. I am going to get my BA degree in the sciences (genetics, evolution, molecular cell bio, up to pre-cal math and physics, chem and o-chem) with 4.0 GPA to go take a test, which says if you have a rope that is 5 feet and want to cut it into 3/4 and 1/4, what are the lengths of the cut ropes. Are you kidding me. I SAY NO!!! and then what, end up teaching some kids, that could careless with education, because its saturates them and they don't value it...

[Aleksi535]

@Pseudonym25 questions and always test new things out. With or without competition, we will produce new ideas and things of all sort. I don't know if you have heard about the teacher situation in California and LA. These teachers are killing themselves to get into some of these schools. Take CBEST (which undermines your entire education) and credentials and more crap. Then they get in, place a hand on a child's shoulder and after being there for 10 years thrown out for sexual abuse...

[Aleksi535]

@Pseudonym25 Yes, we work for money. But why promote competition? Why should people be at each others throats. Look at Mendel. Was he paid to discover the laws of genetics. Some might say yes, but his job was to be a clergyman and grow peas for food. See we fear (and the system sometimes brings examples to solidify this fear) that if there is no competition, the human race wouldn't have come up with music, art and science. That is far from the truth. We are "naturally" also wired to ask ...

[Pseudonym25]

@Aleksi535

We are a type of animal, albeit exceptionally intelligent. We evolved from lower animals, and the whole mechanism of evolution is based on individualism and self interest. We are evolutionarily hard wired to strive for personal gain.

Where is the incentive for a worker to excel when he would recive the same compensation even if he's lazy? Is he supposed to compete for medals? Do you work for medals, or for money?

[Aleksi535]

@Pseudonym25

You are correct! But when we compete for incentive and to exclude, are we not the same as animals? And, yes! Any system that cherishes competition, politics and greed shows the same results as capitalism. It might not be money, but holding an sport competition and giving medals still portrays separation and competition amongst people.

[Adahn5]

@mmclees Well you should know that doctors in Britain get paid by the state according to how many patients they treat. So.. there you go. Also, there are a LOT of doctors who work for nothing, have you ever heard of Doctors without Borders?