activism

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat May 2 16:30:48 PDT 1998


Gar,


>I work for a living and do activisim in my spare time.

So do I. I am paid to teach composition, literature, etc. (part-time); naturally no university would ever pay anyone to think and theorize for revolution!

Anyway, we have a good chance, I think, to restart a movement for national health care in the US, because many people--patients, nurses, doctors, other workers in health care industries--have become so negatively affected by HMOs and because downsizings have increased those without employer-paid health insurance. IMHO, reform-minded labor activists should take a lead in creating a coalition of people who are affected by HMOs--as workers and patients--to argue for national health care.

I think HMOs are great targets for the left in that they symbolize greed, corruption, bureaucratic waste, and disregard for human life at the same time.

Yoshie



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