Source: Common Dreams
by Thom Hartmann
“The recent assassination of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare — the health insurance company with, reportedly, the highest rate of claims rejections (and thus dead, wounded, and furious customers and their relations) — gives us a perfect window to understand the stupidity and danger of the Musk/Trump/Ramaswamy strategy of ‘cutting government’ to ‘make it more efficient, run it like a corporation.’ Consider healthcare, which in almost every other developed country in the world is legally part of the commons — the infrastructure of the nation, like our roads, public schools, parks, police, military, libraries, and fire departments — owned by the people collectively and run for the sole purpose of meeting a basic human need. The entire idea of government — dating all the way back to Gilgamesh and before — is to fulfill that singular purpose of meeting citizens’ needs and keeping the nation strong and healthy.” [editor’s note: The entire idea of political government is for the political class to milk the productive class. Any perceived benefits to the latter are just clever marketing – TLK] (12/09/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-healthcare-government-business