Are We Really Better Off Without #Socialized #Medicine?

https://progressive.org/latest/are-we-really-better-off-without-socialized-medicine-ervin-20240807/

The so-called advantages of private #healthcare are looking less and less advantageous.

The more I think about it the more attractive the world of #MyNeighbourTotoro is.

Live in a small #rural #village surrounded by (paddy) fields and wooded hills with mountains in the distance. Friendly #neighbours who help one another out in general and band together in a crisis.

I could live in a light airy house with one of those Japanese vertical bath tubs, #WorkFromHome, #cycle or #walk locally and take good affordable #PublicTransport for longer journeys. Good fairly #Socialized #LocalHealthCare too.

The house would have a #garden for #vegetables and a semi-wild #meadow / lawn. There would be trees for shade and hanging #hammocks and swings.

The presence of huge, furry Shinto #kami spirits / #GeniusLoci would be a wonderful added bonus.

costs of living and #realestate profiteering in the US.

#Radioproject talks to Samuel Stein about the rise of the global real estate market and how radical city planning, rent control and #socialized land projects can help fight #gentrification.

https://www.radioproject.org/2023/03/capital-city-gentrification-and-the-real-estate-state-2-2

The reason there’s no pushback from the #GOP on #public #school #shooting is that they don’t believe in #PublicSchools.

Every time it happen the perception increases that public school is unsafe. It increases the likelihood that #parents will #homeschool. And the GOP is all about shifting the #burden of #education entirely on parents.

Each shooting is analogous to murdering #socialized education.

The kids are just collateral damage to their goal.

For too long we have #socialized the risk and #privatized the #rewards and called it a "public/private #partnership ".
Edward O. Wilson once described the problem of humanity as having ‘Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology’

The #Collective #Intelligence #Project is flying under the radar, it talks about a way forward.
https://cip.org/whitepaper
and it doesn't talk about a simple-minded solution.

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