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> Tee-hee, Jim, but really - what are the politics of grafting yet
> another stupid structure on top of the stupid structure that is our
> health care financing system? The hodge-podge of conflicting and/or
> overlapping systems is a major part of the problem. The Mass and
> Calif plans *require* the uninsured, under the threat of substantial
> financial penalities, to buy their own health insurance. If that
> isn't the craziest fucking thing I've heard in a long time, I don't
> know what is: they don't have the money, remember? A union that cared
> about the working class as a whole would be pressing for a universal
> system - that's hardly pie in the sky, since variations on that theme
> work all over the world. Except here in the land of the free.
Yeah. It may be that this surreal exercise will help to drive home the point that health care is not about increasing or assuring the profits of insurers but about, well, available health care.
You never know. Stranger things have happened.
Joanna
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