[lbo-talk] Short-Term Tactics at Odds with Medium-Term Needs

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Devine" <jdevine03 at gmail.com>
-if there such massive economic burdens on workers, then there's still
-some divide and rule going on. But mandating uniform health insurance
-does seem a step toward single-payer. Perhaps an inadequate step, but
-a step forward.

Yuck-- a lot of working people have chosen to take the risk of not having 
health care because they have no assets to attach when they show up at the 
emergency room.  It's not the best health care possible, but it's better 
than being forced to shell out thousands of dollars a year that they can't 
afford, just so the insurance companies and hospitals get their pound of 
flesh.

I find it mind-boggling that you see this as a step towards single payer. 
It's a step towards health savings accounts and "personal responsibility" 
for each person to see to their own health care.  But yes, it gets packaged 
with the same rhetoric attacking the employer-based health care system.  So 
since it's using good rhetoric, that makes it a good thing?

Nathan Newman