Now comes Robert Frank, a Cornell economist, who has proposed ways of overcoming opposition to some kind of government- (and therefore taxpayer-) funded solution to the problem. He has put his finger on the two main obstacles to major change in the current system, insurance company opposition and higher taxes.
Privatized healthcare encourages competition carriers, acts as a watch dog over unnecessary or overly inflated claims, and maintains quality of care. Entrusting the federal government to administer our nation's healthcare would mean slower claim handling, more bureaucracy, and greater abuses of the system. Gary Halpin.
Healthcare systems have three competing objectives: 1) Wider access 2) Lower Cost 3) Higher Quality. Ideally these should be balanced either by a self-balancing system or with the help of government policies. Government can provide a framework of subsidy, tax rebates to speed up the process and achieve equilibrium.
Any number of credible studies have shown that 40% to 50% of current U.S. healthcare expenditures are waste (e.g. they result in no improvement and frequently worse patient outcomes up to and including nearly 100,000 needless deaths, worse quality of work life for healthcare providers, etc.).
If universal healthare were financed by progressive taxation, the rich would bear a higher burden of the total cost. Yes, this is socialist. If that means subsidising the healthcare of your poorer neighbour, then socialism is a good thing in this case.
In the late summer of 1922 an undersize boy with an unruly shock of red hair showed up at the University of Illinois for the first day of football practice. His credentials were impressive enough. At Wheaton (Ill.) High School he had been a three-sport standout, and during his senior year he had scored 23 touchdowns and kicked 34 extra points.
When he is standing there at the blackboard diagraming Ohio State's noble off-tackle smash, Coach Woody Hayes occasionally gets so excited he sends that O (representing his tackle) slamming into that V (theirs) with such force the chalk crumbles into a fine, white powder. It is not the play that stimulates Hayes so much as the name behind the O.
United States patriarchy has a prominent squawk-box representative in Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate with his consistently misogynistic, racist, classist, and violent rhetoric.
Control the narrative. Patriarchal language must control the stories, the beliefs, the mythologies of people in order to keep fear, loathing, and divisiveness in the culture and society. Control the narrative —meaning embed a morsel of truth into stacks of dry ice lies, propaganda, spin, and double-speak.
In case anyone who has read this far and doesn’t understand why it is so important to recognize, name, and resist patriarchal language, here are the main crucial reasons.