First there is a shortage.
Then this shortage of ventilators is used by greedy capitalists seeking to profit from this shortage by creating a bidding war to force the prices up.
And, then, on top of all of this, there is a lottery of sorts to determine who will have access to these ventilators.
Are you getting the picture yet?
This profit-driven free market capitalist health care isn’t capable of meeting the massive health care crisis and problem we are confronted with.
This is why the entire health care system/complex must be nationalized immediately with the intent to create a National Public Health Care System based on the model of public education.
Dr. Salk explained all of this to President Eisenhower during the polio pandemic and we still haven’t learned after all this time... as a result, people needlessly die on the altar of capitalist profits and Wall Street’s bottom line.
Quite frankly, the stock exchanges should all be shut down until this coronavirus pandemic is under control because no one in Washington can focus on the need to get people well as long as the stock market’s wild fluctuations remain the center of attention for Trump and members of Congress, and the millionaires and billionaires who bribe them, all of whom place their own stock and bond holdings paramount to the public health. Trump has a very sick fixation on the economy, and a very narrow definition at that of what the economy consists of- he only sees what is good for the wealthy few as a measuring stick for the health of the over-all economy.
And here we come full circle...
Ventilators intentionally kept a precious commodity to force prices up in a bidding war while old people get the “luck of the draw” in a death lottery.
What kind of government stockpiles weapons of death and destruction but not medical supplies?
Are you getting the picture yet?
This profit-driven free market capitalist health care isn’t capable of meeting the massive health care crisis and problem we are confronted with.
This is why the entire health care system/complex must be nationalized immediately with the intent to create a National Public Health Care System based on the model of public education.
Dr. Salk explained all of this to President Eisenhower during the polio pandemic and we still haven’t learned after all this time... as a result, people needlessly die on the altar of capitalist profits and Wall Street’s bottom line.
Quite frankly, the stock exchanges should all be shut down until this coronavirus pandemic is under control because no one in Washington can focus on the need to get people well as long as the stock market’s wild fluctuations remain the center of attention for Trump and members of Congress, and the millionaires and billionaires who bribe them, all of whom place their own stock and bond holdings paramount to the public health. Trump has a very sick fixation on the economy, and a very narrow definition at that of what the economy consists of- he only sees what is good for the wealthy few as a measuring stick for the health of the over-all economy.
And here we come full circle...
Ventilators intentionally kept a precious commodity to force prices up in a bidding war while old people get the “luck of the draw” in a death lottery.
What kind of government stockpiles weapons of death and destruction but not medical supplies?
