Capitalist stranglehold on the healthcare system still must be smashed

[inthebrain]

Celebrate this bill but the battle is far from over.

As a healthcare worker (I'm a nurse) there's no fucking way a persons health should remain up for profit. That's just sick and disgusting. If you don't think profit is what drives the system (and still will determine EVERYONE'S quality of care) you have much more to learn.

The fight ain't over. It's just begun.

[Swamp Rat]

1. I agree

I'd like to have healthcare someday too.

:kick:

[Skittles]

2. smashed? it has been strengthened

[Oregone]

3. I think the entire idealogical theme of this reform is that capitalism produces and distributes...

goods most efficiently for a population, but can do so benevolently as well with technocratic adjustments to reign it in. It follows that such profits and additional expenses are a permissible expense/reward for allowing capitalism to do such a splendid job.

That is the "first step" starting point, with that foundation laying out a future road map.

Honestly, I don't think anyone is on board to vanquish capitalism from health insurance or health delivery any time soon. Its just not on the table today or probably tomorrow.

[paulflorez]

4. Agree!

If single-payer truely is the ultimate solution, it will get to the point where Medicare-For-All will be overwhelmingly popular and the party in power will have more than a supermajority and no choice but to support it. That's how Medicare was passed, with MORE than the number of Senators needed to end a filibuster (3 more in fact, enough to lose at least 3 Senators versus the inability to lose any Senators in the Pre-Brown situation). Plus, overwhelming public support for Medicare.

Personally I don't think it will make things "worse." I think we're going to see some good or bad, but mostly good. I think we're going to see a shift in the way we look at health-care because of this. That shift will decide what ultimately happens. I think even more Americans will realize that universal health-care is a good thing.

[Hannah Bell]

5. no, it's over.