>>On my radio show this evening, I'll be interviewing someone from
Greenpeace on the insurance industry's position on global warming.
Though European reinsurance firms like Munich Re and Swiss Re are
concerned, U.S. inscos aren't. Ideology again, it seems.<<
Doug:
This absense of cheap and accessible quality health is something that puzzles me, too. I've always assumed we'd get national healthcare when unions had the cloat to either demand it or win real private health insurance back, so business would look to shift the cost and get on board, too. It's never happened. Okay. But why at least some US corporations don't use a cost-benefit analysis in supporting national health is a puzzler. From the early 80s on, unions such as the UAW and Steelworkers were faced with the Hobson's choice of getting either raises or better benefit funding as health costs soared for business. If the burden of health care is indeed so onorous, and the unions developed the muscle to make health care a priority, why wouldn't some Iacocca or other maverick type come out for dumping the cost on the government. You say it's "ideology." Could be, though when ideology trumps self-interest it's the ideologue who suffers.
Wanna say more on the "ideology" angle?
Mike Hirsch
-----Original Message----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Sent: Sep 29, 2005 11:10 AM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] corps & single-payer
John Lacny wrote:
>It's my recollection that while no major corporation has come out in
>FAVOR of single-payer per se, there have been some transnationals
>that have gone on record -- in the course of union negotiations --
>that their costs are lower in Canada than the US, and that the
>national health insurance program makes the difference.
Yup, but I suspect they would never come out for single-payer for ideological reasons.
On my radio show this evening, I'll be interviewing someone from Greenpeace on the insurance industry's position on global warming. Though European reinsurance firms like Munich Re and Swiss Re are concerned, U.S. inscos aren't. Ideology again, it seems.
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