While the Zaniya Project Task Force member State Senator Joel Dykstra says he doesn't see a Masschusetts-like plan coming out of the Zaniya Project, this writer remains nervous that the free market theology of the task force members may lead them to recommend a Massachusetts-style mandate to buy private health insurance, akin to the current requirement of all drivers to buy auto insurance. Thus, keep in mind Michael Moore's response this afternoon to a question on NPR's Talk of the Nation about the Massachusetts plan. "It's a bad idea," said the director of SiCKO. "It treats people like automobiles."
Exactly. Health care isn't a typical consumer product. It's not a mere subset of economic activity. It is caring for real people, for life itself. Instead of fretting over insurance agents' profits and the faux-sanctity of the free market, the Zaniya Project needs to put people first and focus on our social responsibility to take care of each other.
Is Rolfing returning to council chambers next week to defend his stupid
election rule?
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The rumor from city hall moles is that former councilor Tex Golfing (Rex
Rolfing) will be returning to Carnegie to defend his stupid runoff rule. I
wonder ...
7 hours ago
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