Don't worry about it, I just wish the NHS was central to this election campaign.
it just won't be sadly.
With no hoper Corbyn are Labour in for a serious hammering in the General election
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Re: With no hoper Corbyn are Labour in for a serious hammering in the General election
I believe that British Conservatives are more closely aligned philosophically to US neo-cons than perhaps their EU counterparts. There has been no single act by any conservative gotv. in my lifetime that shakes me of this belief and as such I'm not confident that any insurance-based reform would be beneficial to low earners, even before considering the way automisation will squeeze the jobs market, forcing more people onto lower wages. I sound like an utter crackpot, I know, but without a rethink of the way wealth is distributed (and healthcare comes under this umbrella) all the roads, to me at least, point towards neo-feudalism.Paul Waine wrote:Hi Spiral, I understand your concern re how do you afford insurance on low wages. Take a look at my posts how they tackled this when I lived in the Netherlands. It seemed to work.
I agree, that none of us who live in the UK want a USA type system where the unemployed have no health insurance and can be massively exposed to enormous costs.
I suppose at the end of the day I believe two things: 1. ensure people have a roof over their head & a comfortable wage and the country takes care of itself, and 2. an enormous amount of good can be achieved by expanding the middle class, which is what I believe many Labour policies achieve.
edit-If I'm being greedy, I'd also like macroeconomics taught as part of the curriculum. It's depressing to hear people conflate macro and micro economic principles as though they are in any way analogous. But I digress.