Health
is Necessary for Workers
The Congress doesn’t seem to know
what to do with health care in the U.S.A. They don’t seem to be
able to coordinate concepts of how public and private interests can
work together, side by side, independently or separately on the
issue, nor are they able to get Ayn Rand’s hoary ideas about
capitalist billionaires who are the few and proud out of their
thought enough to reason a little, rather than just follow the
program dogmatically.
Ayn Rand’s ideas about the role of
capitalists was written during the cold war at a time when the
difference in income between a CEO and shop worker might be just 300x
rather than the nth power. It was written when wealth was not
concentrating for the 1% faster than national economic growth and
before the era of computerized dark pool trading and global
networking. Besides- there was a communist rival for competition that
required that workers be treated somewhat fairly. The congress like
the U.S. public has either lost its memory, mind, ability to reason
about political philosophy and the role of government in keeping the
economy fit for democracy and free enterprise for all citizens (and
avoiding plutocracy or oligarchy etc.) They are just in the Ayn Rand
mode with candied snails for lunch inclined brains basically. Neither
are the people any longer able in theory to revolt. That was the
point of universal gun owning franchise; to keep the government
honest. In the modern era with all the sophisticated weapons and U.S.
war aircraft capable of flying 80% as fast as the Mig-31 did n the
1980s, with all the surveillance technology and drones the public
can’t even theoretically put up a battle with the government.
Ayn Rand didn’t teach that without
the ability for citizens to revolt governments inevitable become
corrupt. The consent of the governed can only happen if the people
have the ability not to consent to be governed-and good luck with
that.
The
problem of original sin and of evil manifests itself in human social
relations including macro-economic pay and benefits structures. Some
non-citizens may argue against equal medical benefits for workers as
for management in the United States...
In
reading a history of Fascism 1900-1945 covering such characters as
Doriot in France, Rivera and Franco in Spain and so forth one may
discover the social and cultural characteristics that contributed to
the rise of fascism and The New Order. Thugs, crude and cruel people
haven't intellectual objectives as their primary aim in college, but
a rise to power instead. Management positions are the shortest way to
worldly power and material reward; the beady eyed management mind may
have no more goals in life but the big cheese. Once attaining power
they hinder and subvert social progress that might undermine their
existentially delusional feelings of being meaningful citizens
contributing to the well being of humanity.
All
human beings have a need for health in order to work. If a human is
injured and cannot work yet needs medical treatment for pain relief
and hopefully to work once again then someone has to pay for it.
Often the state will reimburse hospitals for free coverage, while the
patient gets second rate charity treatment that inadequately remedies
the medical problem.
The
second or third rate ineffective medical intervention requires
ongoing or even chronic medical attention that the state may pay. The
cynics in government happily add the patient costs to the national
debt, which then requires a 200 or 300% increase through interest
payments in order to finance the medical treatment.
In
the meantime the thugs in management clear cut forests, pollute the
air and water, build mini-mansion stick frame homes and require
worker tribute to OPEC oil countries for the required automobile with
derision for 'trikes' as managers can't discern the nomenclature
difference between two and three wheeled human powered vehicles. The
management class lives in comfort being pains as often as not, and
remember 'the way things were' with Septemberish bittersweetness,
while the injured worker in pain wishes for the pain to be just a
memory instead of the way things are.
The
management class then asks simply that the worker pay 200 or 300
dollars monthly for medical coverage that he/she/it gets for free
along with their hair dye and sex changes. The management class and
the millionaire Senate flunkies of global corporatism fall prey to
the problem of evil, and cannot balance a budget, schedule necessary
medical treatment for all people within American borders nor create a
zero tolerance for illegal immigration. With 300 million Americans no
more than 600,000 immigrants from all sources should arrive here
annually.
Medical
treatment for injuries and illness isn't an option or luxury but a
necessity for humanity.
Especially
with all of the national dope abuse, the comparative cost of
providing health care for the poor by the government directly through
and expanded V.A. Hospital System coordinating with existing poor and
homeless clinics-each networking to treat civilians and former
military together,. It would be more nationally cost effective to
keep people healthy and able to work than to let them default into
disability and ad hoc charity medical situations that add to the cost
of public and private payments anyway.
