If it's means-tested it won't be perceived as an entitled program, maybe.
Also there will be a big heat from boomers and our kids in 15 years when the money runs out and my generation takes up residence in cardboard boxes under East Wacker Drive -- or with the kiddies, who will decidedly not want us around, with enormous gealth care expenses and no penions or health insurance. When this hits the middle class, it's gonna be a big factor olitically.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Michael Hirsch wrote:
>
> >I'm not persuaded--his places too much emphasis on
> consciousness and
> >not enough on real history and real class struggles
>
> I'd say that fear of creating a new "entitlement" is
> all about class
> struggle: universal health insurance would increase
> the power of the
> working class - to paraphrase Kalecki, fear of the
> sack would lose
> some of its sting, since workers wouldn't be
> dependent on employers
> for health insurance. And it might embolden the
> working class to ask
> for more. The low level of expectations among
> American workers is one
> of the great victories of the bourgeoisie - it took
> more than a
> century to get here, and they're not going to risk
> any retreat.
>
> Doug
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