Brilliant quote from the brilliant Chomsky!

How much money should Jeff Bezos be allowed to keep? And if you took all of Jeff Bezos money, would it be enough for everyone’s health care? Who else would you confiscate money from? There are a lot of needy people who want free health care. What amount on money are you allowed to keep?

Nonone needs a billion of anything and those that think they do, don't even know that accumulation of stuff just makes you sick

Excellent. So true.

The Idaho man is likely to be the kind of man who would most likely smoke a Marlborough cigarette and would object to any doctor telling him not to, because if he gets lung cancer, well, it's his body and he'll die if he wants to...

Amen brother

They hear of the latest figure for Bezos' wealth and look at him like a god rather than look at the low wages, tough working conditions, paltry benefits that he compensates his workers with for their cartilage.

No thanks...

They don't even compensate family if you donate organs upon death. Why? I'm sure they'd love to bring up how much it costs to perform extractions and store them should one of us have the gall to ask for compensation of some kind. You know what their answer is? 'You're helping someone else. That should be enough'. Well, where is that sentiment for people who can't afford medical care? You know, 'you're helping someone else. That should be enough', right?

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This ideology of “every man for himself” is toxic and creates a sickness that spreads and destroys communities. Every man should be taught to handle their own affairs but to also participate and help the community in which they live. It’s a balance of give and take, and if done properly everyone benefits. People should be encouraged to help out, but the government should also help its citizens, first by not taxing to the point where people are financially stressed, and secondly by making sure that most of the taxes collected go right back into the communities to provide good quality public services one of which should be Health Insurance. Every man should be trained to stand alone, but also trained to be a valuable member of their community, and to accept help when needed so they can continue to be strong for as long as possible.

Rhonda, I highly recommend you to read “What’s the matter with Kansas?” By Thomas Frank

@@siamakgarmroudi4779 Thank you, I know Frank and have listened to him speak. He has a lot of helpful insights.

Yes, and I didn't realise he had moved to Britain. He should present 'Have I Got News For You'! He'd be brilliant 😁

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@becoming.andreia And the grotesque paradox is that this ideological hypertrophic individualism is truly destructive of individuality and of the individual. Public health care would have freed the Idaho truck driver from the stress and anguish of bankruptcy, and its after-effects on the rest of his life ( his relationships with members of his family; being forced to come out of retirement and take steroids that are badly affecting his health). Maybe Yanis could have gently prodded into the truck driver's notion of 'individuality' and showed him (with no guarantee of success) how not only self-contradictory (which is a theoretical argument) but self-defeating his concept of individualism it was. That in the end, his notion of 'individualism' was not leaving him with 'dignity' and 'pride' but forcing him into work that is damaging his health and his standing in the world.

Yeah well that has been in question since the barbar surgeons.

That's the Tory party right there, too.

I see that all the time the damage this has done to pts, we nocebo everything and over diagnosed and scare people into getting unnecessary procedures or medications which just make the matters worse for there predicament. Sad to see.

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Wow.... that's an eye opener! I thought the UK had a good system

Australia's heading down a similar path. While there are more public options available if you're a pensioner or disabled, medicare is being dismantled piece by piece.

It is global greed

It's interesting to hear you're planning on leaving private healthcare. I thought it was going the other way, and that that was one reason for the mass vacancy problem in the NHS. It gives me hope.

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But Help in the usa for a lot of people means bankruptcy for that family. It's a sad thing where you live in a country that cares more about other countries than its own people.

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Keep in mind how long the waiting period would be for people that can't afford the surgery in a place like the US. I am American, but I know a couple people with insurance, but who have still travelled overseas for surgery since February because of low/no coverage.

All in all taking every part of the health care systems into account Canadians still live three years longer than U.S citizens. What people at the end wouldn't do for a day more, let alone 3 years more with their loved ones. All these moments stolen from millions of people by insurance companies.

@@FirstnameLastname-kn5sw Let alone that no Canadians go bankrupt because of medical debt, while hundreds of thousands of Americans WITH PRIVATE INSURANCE do.

Before the scummy corporate parties in the UK (Tories and right-wing Labour) started doing exactly what the private health insurance lobbies want in return for their money, our NhS had NO QUEUES to talk of. I'm old enough to remember that 14 years ago you could see your GP the next day (or even the same day, if you went after 4:00 pm and did not mind waiting). You could see a consultant at the hospital (all owned by our NhS) within 2 weeks max. of seeing your GP. To allow the public health system to collapse has been a political decision led by the professional political class' ties to private anomic interests. It is sad that you have no idea what a blessing it is to have a proper NhS, how much it frees you (and your family) from anxieties that have nothing to do with the state of your health. It is sadder still that both the main political parties (corporate cesspools) in the UK are sending us the way of barbaric USA, instead of recovering the good state our NhS used to be. There should be millions in the street demonstrating against this scam perpetrated against the British people (or English people, I should say, for Scotland, having a different regional government, has refused to do to the NhS there -despite the budget being controlled by the government in Westminster, and all the problems that has created in Scotland too- what the old scumbags are doing, and the new scumbags will be doing, to our NhS here in England).

Yes! I went to the Eden Project in Cornwall once - it's an environment park that imagines new futures for environment protection) - and there was a sign in the shop there with a chainsaw tied to it that read "Your wallet is your weapon". I've never forgotten the power of my money as my vote.

"Private sector competition " 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😮

Well, my dad is 85 and he hates Thatcher. He was a civil servant but she privatised his job. We all know someone who's 75 or older. Thatcher decimated the UK economy by saying society didn't exist, and set everyone up to fight for themselves, selling off national assets that weren't hers to sell. If you're fine, great. If you're not, tough, it's your fault. Get on your bike. Britain is drowning in the legacy of that kind of societal self-harm via neo-liberalism, privatisation and corporate greed. And it's one of the progenitors of the debacle of Brexit.

@@PeppermintPattiesagreed. My father is dead now but until his fitting day he hated Thatcher. He was a miner and saw what she did to the mining industry and particularly the miners themselves. She simply didn’t care about their lives at all.

I think my previous reply was deleted. I said something against the capitalist algorithm, lolz... In Britain, you can check out We Own It, Keep Our NHS Public, or Open Democracy. Lots of petitions to sign, too. And use the NHS. If you don't have to go private, use it and treasure it! ❤️