The murder of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson has united Americans to reveal their righteous rage at a broken health care system that profits off our death. Universal Health Care is the cure.
Waj, I am in favor of national healthcare. Big lobby, big pharma, etc., will fight it tooth and nail. We have the fight to take hold of the Legislative Branch in 2026, and we can make national healthcare part of the 2028 Democratic Platform. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/democratic-platform-28?r=3m1bs
Two comments. Bigger countries have more patients and correlatively they have bigger numbers of medical professionals....just as bigger countries have bigger numbers of cars, etc......the number of doctors is not fixed across countries. The ratio of doctor to patient can be the same across size of countries. Secondly, with those savings, we could also CHANGE medical services routinely provided, working far more on preventative services. In England, new mothers have home health care visitors no matter who they are, a person medically trained and a person more socially-psychologically trained to help new mothers. Child care could be routinely provided. Well children clinics and more local geriatric centers.
So much of what government is for just doesn't happen in the US. We can and should keep moving towards a model of Universal healthcare that takes care of people's basic needs. We need to take care of each other in order for all of us to thrive. We will all be better for it.
You never do anything that isn’t out of the park. This says it all. You are correct. With the Fapweasel coming in, it will become worse, and the corporate murderers will do exactly as you say to protect their profits. I know you won’t agree with me, the only way to get their attention is to send them to the realm of the unalive. We are merely unalive organisms to them.
Oh, my goodness! Two of my favorite Substack personalities together!
Thanks for reading, James!
Very informative interview, Waj (& Qasim)! Thanks for sharing this!
Lol you guys even have similar backgrounds. Great episode
Totally accidental. I guess great minds think alike, and apparently so do mine and Wajahat's :)
Waj, I am in favor of national healthcare. Big lobby, big pharma, etc., will fight it tooth and nail. We have the fight to take hold of the Legislative Branch in 2026, and we can make national healthcare part of the 2028 Democratic Platform. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/democratic-platform-28?r=3m1bs
Two comments. Bigger countries have more patients and correlatively they have bigger numbers of medical professionals....just as bigger countries have bigger numbers of cars, etc......the number of doctors is not fixed across countries. The ratio of doctor to patient can be the same across size of countries. Secondly, with those savings, we could also CHANGE medical services routinely provided, working far more on preventative services. In England, new mothers have home health care visitors no matter who they are, a person medically trained and a person more socially-psychologically trained to help new mothers. Child care could be routinely provided. Well children clinics and more local geriatric centers.
Stay on this like white on rice. You are preventing murders in the street.
#M4A #AOC
So much of what government is for just doesn't happen in the US. We can and should keep moving towards a model of Universal healthcare that takes care of people's basic needs. We need to take care of each other in order for all of us to thrive. We will all be better for it.
You never do anything that isn’t out of the park. This says it all. You are correct. With the Fapweasel coming in, it will become worse, and the corporate murderers will do exactly as you say to protect their profits. I know you won’t agree with me, the only way to get their attention is to send them to the realm of the unalive. We are merely unalive organisms to them.