10-07-2013, 01:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-07-2013, 01:51 AM by FireIceTalon.)
This is all totally based on language presented to people. If you ask most Americans if they want a "universal healthcare system", past and present polls show that the majority do. But if you ask them if they want "government controlled healthcare" (or what the GOP likes to call "socialism"), then they get scared. I find it odd (and disturbing) that we live in a country where if you are arrested, you are told "if you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed to you"......yet if you cannot afford healthcare, welp, you're pretty much up shits creek without a paddle. Gee, I wonder which is more of a basic necessity in people's everyday lives.
And while Obamacare is pretty weak, it isn't nearly as unpopular as the GOP would like to think it is. I have my problems with OC, but not for the same reason conservative fear mongers do.
Americans need to understand that a universal healthcare system (or the welfare state as a whole) and socialism are two completely different things - one is a set of institutions and policies, the other is a social-economic system/mode of production, governed by a very specific set of social and property relationships (just as capitalism is).
And while Obamacare is pretty weak, it isn't nearly as unpopular as the GOP would like to think it is. I have my problems with OC, but not for the same reason conservative fear mongers do.
Americans need to understand that a universal healthcare system (or the welfare state as a whole) and socialism are two completely different things - one is a set of institutions and policies, the other is a social-economic system/mode of production, governed by a very specific set of social and property relationships (just as capitalism is).
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)