The neoliberal experiment in the US has helped mold a society
disconnected from the human condition, where oppression of the
individual has aimed to thwart popular solidarity that might threaten
the experiment. What should be a universal right to health care, for
example, is instead wielded punitively against the population, and, as
acclaimed journalist and radio host Doug Henwood points out,
“Obamacare” will presumably result in a situation in which “scores of
millions are thrown onto the private individual insurance market and
forced to pay $1,000 a month for crappy coverage”.
Henwood hopes that “this could vastly increase the constituency for a single-payer scheme, such as Medicare for All—assuming our rulers don’t destroy Medicare first”.
In
the end, perhaps Facebook and similar phenomena have already
contributed to solidarity on the health care front: in the very least,
we’re united in mass attention deficit disorder.
-Belen Fernandez, Al Jazeera
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