The right has spent decades teaching white voters to cognitively encode redistribution as status loss. These people aren't expressing a genuine love for the insurance industry - that would be obviously crazy. It requires them to fear that someone they have been trained to resent might benefit from a better system too. It's amazing that the specter of "undeserving others" can outweigh self-preservation. Propagandists recognized this phenomenon many, many decades ago, and, as jaw dropping as it is depressing, it keeps working.
I am very aware of the con, want to strip these billionaires of their ability to adversely influence government for their benefit, and tax much of their wealth away as well as stopping the subsidies they get at our expense. It makes no sense to deprive ourselves of healthcare. Everyone is worth it, there are no undeserving people.
If you expand the collusion of health care, with the food industry that clearly promotes products that are toxic and the massive medication and chemical industry you have the trio of evil fraud.
Thom’s mortality statistics are accurate.
This is the country that monetizes death to the highest degree. The mental sickness of the billionaires is by far the most devastating disease on the earth.
My mom worked for the teacher's union and we had "Cadillac health insurance" when I was dx'd with "juvenile diabetes". Insulin had $0 copay. Appointments $5. It's not like spa services were covered. I want that for everyone, unlike the Teamster todd guy that voted for T-rump because he sees Medicare for All as a threat to his health care. %0 insulin is not a luxury!
lt is not the quantity of melanin but the source of that melanin. The devout racists have no problem with a very dark Kash Patel or Vivek Ramaswamy or a mulatto Bobby Jindal or a quadroon Nimrata Haley. Even a Nigerian or 2nd generation Nigerian can prosper.
It os the American Descendants of Slaves (ADOS)that catches the ire, loathing, hatred of these cretins. unless they turn Quisling, and join the Massah, sit by his fireplace, drinking brandy and advising him as to how to control the field slaves., then he is welcome into the massahs house, just don't oggle the massah's daughter, there is plenty of white trash, like Ginnie Thomas, to be had.
Last night I assumed Rachel would not be on for her usual Monday evening show, but I looked to see what was in its place. She was on but with a special interview of Professor Steven J. Ross who has two books about the long fight against racial hate in the U. S. I only caught the title of one, which is "The Secret war Against Hate". He pointed out that the veterans of the second world war who thought of themselves as great patriots were livid when they returned because their world had changed while they were fighting overseas. They saw themselves as patriots fighting against the Japanese who had attacked us at Pearl Harbor, but not the against the European fascists. They saw Blacks getting civil rights protections and equality being established as the new norm and they felt betrayed. There was a great resurgence of the KKK and that was what "inspired" hundreds of radical white supremacist groups and militias, especially in the deep south. This confirms what Thom is saying. It's the racism, stupid! The good news is that there are always brave people who fight against the hate and bigotry and the racists and fascists are inept and so insecure and power hungry that they are chaotic and inept. The bad news is that they have people in powerful government positions now willing to force their sick pathology on all of us. The other bad news is that the inhospitable, stressful, and extremely competitive environment in many schools defeats all attempts to reduce racial divisions and animosities and to effectively promote true intellectual development. Equality is not top of mind when one feels alienated, vexed. confused, and neglected and when one is made to hate the little bit of boooooring history that is offered.
Yesterday Rachel Maddow interviewed Professor Steven Ross on his new book The Secret War Against Hate---might be a good read to follow Thom's Who Killed The American Dream.
Ross explained the racists that entered the war just because of Pearl Harbor came right home only to fire-up the Klan and spawn white supremacist groups all over this country. The POC and women that helped win the war were supposed to go back to worshipping white men.
The racists' spawn and students are with us today. TRump has elevated them and now wants to pay them. It is the perfect time to point out he wants our money for that, a bunker/ballroom, and billionaire tax breaks while Americans can no longer afford health insurance or health care. Know your history in order to change the future. See you in the streets.
Of these 51 billionaires, how many have any medical training; how many ever worked in a clinic or hospital? I venture to guess nearly one. Every dollar they take is stolen from doctors, nurses, support staff, patients and taxpayers, because we have a system that supports and sustains the notion that owners own their workers and all the work they do. Racial resentment dating back to the Civil War is how to get the hoi polloi to buy into this grift.
Thom's excellent article reminded me of my time living in Germany in the 80's. Socialized healthcare was something my German friends were proud of. Add in a socialized education system and the results were a less stressed society. Oh and their guns were kept locked up at their gun clubs. Obviously all societies have their problems but eliminating the money worries of providing healthcare and education for our kids and ourselves would go a long way toward having a more decent and calmer society.
Of course, the bodies piling up include lots of white bodies. The people dying early include white people. When it comes to healthcare, racism has negative blowback. Nevertheless, it is worth keeping in mind that racism is not the only reason America lacks a national healthcare system. The GOP has promoted the greed is good philosophy for many decades as key to prosperity.
The medical profession has long promoted the false capitalist notion that the more you pay for something, the better is its quality. That notion helped build private medical practice businesses in America, making physicians rich. But that turned out to be a double-edged sword as the doctors realized that running a small business meant they had no free time. By 2000, the AMA changed its private-practice tune, and health maintenance groups started popping up - one-stop shops for health care that provided clinics, hospitals, specialists, labs, etc. all for one low-low price that some insurance companies embraced. They also provided a business management team and an 8-to-5 workday for medical professionals. Soon, the billionaires started buying up those groups, and we are back to square one as far as access to healthcare.
There is a tiny minority of Americans who already enjoy a national health system - the military. Active and retired service members and our families get free health services, medication, and surgeries. Once we become eligible, we must join Medicare Part B, then healthcare is free for the rest of our lives. I mention that to point out that America has a system in place, rules, billing, drug price caps, etc. that could be expanded almost overnight if we started voting for legislators with spines.
Obama structured The Affordable Care Act to placate the health care conglomerates. In doing so he means-tested Medicaid, and in cowardly move left the use of Medicaid funds up to the states instead of just federalizing Medicaid allotment of funds. Who didn't know that these red states that reviled social programs would refuse to expand Medicaid? Meanwhile, the rest of us are subject to the whims of the for-profit insurance industry that drains us of our resources one way or another. I called you way back in 2015 to tell you that patients were being forced not to change their doctors under the ACA and you hung up on me saying I was a Republican plant. One of the all-time fatal politician lies was Obama promising that patients would not have to change their doctors and premiums would not go up. While the ACA has helped some, it has overwhelmingly damaged the health care system and harmed far more than it has helped. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/no-democrats-its-not-republicans
The right has spent decades teaching white voters to cognitively encode redistribution as status loss. These people aren't expressing a genuine love for the insurance industry - that would be obviously crazy. It requires them to fear that someone they have been trained to resent might benefit from a better system too. It's amazing that the specter of "undeserving others" can outweigh self-preservation. Propagandists recognized this phenomenon many, many decades ago, and, as jaw dropping as it is depressing, it keeps working.
I am very aware of the con, want to strip these billionaires of their ability to adversely influence government for their benefit, and tax much of their wealth away as well as stopping the subsidies they get at our expense. It makes no sense to deprive ourselves of healthcare. Everyone is worth it, there are no undeserving people.
If you expand the collusion of health care, with the food industry that clearly promotes products that are toxic and the massive medication and chemical industry you have the trio of evil fraud.
Thom’s mortality statistics are accurate.
This is the country that monetizes death to the highest degree. The mental sickness of the billionaires is by far the most devastating disease on the earth.
Race Hate is the base's, i.e., his 34%'s crack.
Without it? They do not exist. They don't know what to do with themselves.
Irrational? Utterly. But it's as solid as their cement heads.
It is one primary reason this is China's century.
Because the 34% have allowed a racist kook back into the nation's cockpit.
So, a 34%er denying themselves healthcare because Black people would benefit?
= racial resentment causing self‑harm
= self‑destructive racialized policy preference
= symbolic racism overriding self‑interest
Priorities matter. [Unless you're mental.]
# VOTE them out # Don Jr. to Kharg Island
My mom worked for the teacher's union and we had "Cadillac health insurance" when I was dx'd with "juvenile diabetes". Insulin had $0 copay. Appointments $5. It's not like spa services were covered. I want that for everyone, unlike the Teamster todd guy that voted for T-rump because he sees Medicare for All as a threat to his health care. %0 insulin is not a luxury!
lt is not the quantity of melanin but the source of that melanin. The devout racists have no problem with a very dark Kash Patel or Vivek Ramaswamy or a mulatto Bobby Jindal or a quadroon Nimrata Haley. Even a Nigerian or 2nd generation Nigerian can prosper.
It os the American Descendants of Slaves (ADOS)that catches the ire, loathing, hatred of these cretins. unless they turn Quisling, and join the Massah, sit by his fireplace, drinking brandy and advising him as to how to control the field slaves., then he is welcome into the massahs house, just don't oggle the massah's daughter, there is plenty of white trash, like Ginnie Thomas, to be had.
Last night I assumed Rachel would not be on for her usual Monday evening show, but I looked to see what was in its place. She was on but with a special interview of Professor Steven J. Ross who has two books about the long fight against racial hate in the U. S. I only caught the title of one, which is "The Secret war Against Hate". He pointed out that the veterans of the second world war who thought of themselves as great patriots were livid when they returned because their world had changed while they were fighting overseas. They saw themselves as patriots fighting against the Japanese who had attacked us at Pearl Harbor, but not the against the European fascists. They saw Blacks getting civil rights protections and equality being established as the new norm and they felt betrayed. There was a great resurgence of the KKK and that was what "inspired" hundreds of radical white supremacist groups and militias, especially in the deep south. This confirms what Thom is saying. It's the racism, stupid! The good news is that there are always brave people who fight against the hate and bigotry and the racists and fascists are inept and so insecure and power hungry that they are chaotic and inept. The bad news is that they have people in powerful government positions now willing to force their sick pathology on all of us. The other bad news is that the inhospitable, stressful, and extremely competitive environment in many schools defeats all attempts to reduce racial divisions and animosities and to effectively promote true intellectual development. Equality is not top of mind when one feels alienated, vexed. confused, and neglected and when one is made to hate the little bit of boooooring history that is offered.
Yesterday Rachel Maddow interviewed Professor Steven Ross on his new book The Secret War Against Hate---might be a good read to follow Thom's Who Killed The American Dream.
Ross explained the racists that entered the war just because of Pearl Harbor came right home only to fire-up the Klan and spawn white supremacist groups all over this country. The POC and women that helped win the war were supposed to go back to worshipping white men.
The racists' spawn and students are with us today. TRump has elevated them and now wants to pay them. It is the perfect time to point out he wants our money for that, a bunker/ballroom, and billionaire tax breaks while Americans can no longer afford health insurance or health care. Know your history in order to change the future. See you in the streets.
The world's worst "for profit" scheme.
The MOST cost for the poor.
The MOST profit for the billionaires.
Time for change - they call it private instead of public -
I agree with Thom - It's racist to the core..
There should be no profit-making in the treatment of human health.
Excessive or otherwise.
I can't approve of his method, but I can't disagree with Luigi Mangione's message.
Of these 51 billionaires, how many have any medical training; how many ever worked in a clinic or hospital? I venture to guess nearly one. Every dollar they take is stolen from doctors, nurses, support staff, patients and taxpayers, because we have a system that supports and sustains the notion that owners own their workers and all the work they do. Racial resentment dating back to the Civil War is how to get the hoi polloi to buy into this grift.
Thom's excellent article reminded me of my time living in Germany in the 80's. Socialized healthcare was something my German friends were proud of. Add in a socialized education system and the results were a less stressed society. Oh and their guns were kept locked up at their gun clubs. Obviously all societies have their problems but eliminating the money worries of providing healthcare and education for our kids and ourselves would go a long way toward having a more decent and calmer society.
Of course, the bodies piling up include lots of white bodies. The people dying early include white people. When it comes to healthcare, racism has negative blowback. Nevertheless, it is worth keeping in mind that racism is not the only reason America lacks a national healthcare system. The GOP has promoted the greed is good philosophy for many decades as key to prosperity.
The medical profession has long promoted the false capitalist notion that the more you pay for something, the better is its quality. That notion helped build private medical practice businesses in America, making physicians rich. But that turned out to be a double-edged sword as the doctors realized that running a small business meant they had no free time. By 2000, the AMA changed its private-practice tune, and health maintenance groups started popping up - one-stop shops for health care that provided clinics, hospitals, specialists, labs, etc. all for one low-low price that some insurance companies embraced. They also provided a business management team and an 8-to-5 workday for medical professionals. Soon, the billionaires started buying up those groups, and we are back to square one as far as access to healthcare.
There is a tiny minority of Americans who already enjoy a national health system - the military. Active and retired service members and our families get free health services, medication, and surgeries. Once we become eligible, we must join Medicare Part B, then healthcare is free for the rest of our lives. I mention that to point out that America has a system in place, rules, billing, drug price caps, etc. that could be expanded almost overnight if we started voting for legislators with spines.
Obama structured The Affordable Care Act to placate the health care conglomerates. In doing so he means-tested Medicaid, and in cowardly move left the use of Medicaid funds up to the states instead of just federalizing Medicaid allotment of funds. Who didn't know that these red states that reviled social programs would refuse to expand Medicaid? Meanwhile, the rest of us are subject to the whims of the for-profit insurance industry that drains us of our resources one way or another. I called you way back in 2015 to tell you that patients were being forced not to change their doctors under the ACA and you hung up on me saying I was a Republican plant. One of the all-time fatal politician lies was Obama promising that patients would not have to change their doctors and premiums would not go up. While the ACA has helped some, it has overwhelmingly damaged the health care system and harmed far more than it has helped. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/no-democrats-its-not-republicans
To be clear, this is also a condemnation of corporate Democrats. Vote accordingly.