http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/04/05/if-you-think-the-solution-to-the-healthcare-crisis/ News and Opinion on Politics and Media Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:12:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/04/05/if-you-think-the-solution-to-the-healthcare-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-704534 Health Care at 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:21:38 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/04/05/if-you-think-the-solution-to-the-healthcare-crisis-should-come-from-the-private-sector-here-is-a-question/#comment-704534 [...] companies and big pharma — and we need to do it quickly. We can’t wait for the supposed private sector solution that everyone knows is just a myth, and we can’t keep putting bandaids on the current, [...] [...] companies and big pharma — and we need to do it quickly. We can’t wait for the supposed private sector solution that everyone knows is just a myth, and we can’t keep putting bandaids on the current, [...]

]]> http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/04/05/if-you-think-the-solution-to-the-healthcare-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-54072 anonymous Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:46:35 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/04/05/if-you-think-the-solution-to-the-healthcare-crisis-should-come-from-the-private-sector-here-is-a-question/#comment-54072 The private sector won't even consider pitching-in to help with the health care crisis until it's guaranteed huge profits, such as the pharmaceutical industry is now receiving with the Medicare prescription drug plan. The privates know that they can't compete on a level playing field with the likes of Medicare and the Veterans Administration. They also knows that the single payer systems (as in Canada and Western Europe) are much cheaper and cover much more (long term rehabilitation, for example)than corporate medicine does. Why isn't our president interested in taking the cheapest and most efficient route? Because he's not concerned only with making sure that his immoral and wasteful market ideology prevails, to hell with the public. What's the answer? Replace Capitalism and its market system with Participatory Economics (Parecon) authored by Michael Albert (see Znet), thereby dumping the profit motive and moving towards a classless society. It's doable! The private sector won’t even consider pitching-in to help with the health care crisis until it’s guaranteed huge profits, such as the pharmaceutical industry is now receiving with the Medicare prescription drug plan. The privates know that they can’t compete on a level playing field with the likes of Medicare and the Veterans Administration. They also knows that the single payer systems (as in Canada and Western Europe) are much cheaper and cover much more (long term rehabilitation, for example)than corporate medicine does. Why isn’t our president interested in taking the cheapest and most efficient route? Because he’s not concerned only with making sure that his immoral and wasteful market ideology prevails, to hell with the public. What’s the answer? Replace Capitalism and its market system with Participatory Economics (Parecon) authored by Michael Albert (see Znet), thereby dumping the profit motive and moving towards a classless society. It’s doable!

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