raghu wrote: "I'd bet that if a 'Medicare for all' proposal is put on a popular referendum in the US, it will fail."
Perhaps, but not for the reasons you offer. Most people would gain financially as well as health-wise. However, rational self-interest does not necessarily prevail on ballots. The real test is more like this: if a dictatorship imposed an Improved Medicare for All for five years and then the dictatorship were dissolved, popular support for the new system would be huge. (And depending on its class nature, maybe the dictatorship should not be dissolved. :) ) Capitalists have wanted to dismantle Social Security for decades. They might eventually win by accumulated increments of erosion, but so far it has been an uphill battle for them. http://www.hollowcolossus.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
