Probleme locale, probleme globale

Scurt, că n-avem timp. Primo: Marele Reformator al sănătăţii ar trebui să treacă rapid de la tratamentul cu vizichi la cel cu lecitină. Pentru că actualul sistem, cel cu Casa Naţională de Sănătate, a fost introdus pe vremea când se hăhăia el în guvernul CDR, şi a fost "reformat" pe vremea când se hăhăia, în primul mandat, la Trei Coceni. Aşa poate ne spune şi cât au crescut preţurile la medicamente şi echipamente în ultimii 12 ani. Nu de altceva, dar preţurile scad doar la plasme şi alte căcăţişuri. În sectorul medical este cea mai mare inflaţie, la nivel global, pentru că băieţii vor profitul până la cer. Iar când ai de ales între a plăti cât vrea sistemul, şi copârşeu, faci şi pe dracu în patru să plăteşti. Că după aia regreţi că n-ai ales copârşeul e o altă poveste. 

De fapt, nimeni nu mai reuşeşte să ţină sub control preţurile în sistemul de sănătate, dintr-un motiv simplu: transformarea sănătăţii în marfă şi privatizarea sălbatică a sistemelor publice de sănătate, dereglementarea pieţelor. 

Coplata, poliţele suplimentare, pachetul minim gen o aspirină şi certificatul de deces, listele de aşteptare, etc, sunt false soluţii. Întotdeauna va fi nevoie de bani mai mulţi. Oamenii au de ales între a plăti şi a nu mai merge la medic. Şi cei care nu mai merg la medic sunt din ce în ce mai mulţi. 

Una dintre marile probleme o reprezintă, în România, salariile extrem de mici, care duc la sume la fel de mici pentru plata serviciilor de sănătate, iar în Occident, mai ales în SUA, destrămarea clasei de mijloc, care tot la o scădere a sumelor disponibile pentru plata serviciilor de sănătate duce. Plata mizerabilă a muncii, peste tot în lume, şi recompensarea nemeritat de mare a capitalului, vor duce la impasul unor industrii precum cea a asigurărilor, a medicamentelor şi aparaturii medicale, a cercetării-dezvoltării. Spuneţi-mi un singur medicament revoluţionar de care aţi auzit în ultimii douzeci de ani. 

Apropo de clasa de mijloc: situaţia ei în SUA se agravează pe zi ce trece. Motivele? Uitaţi aici un inventar: "The America of a generation ago had multiple institutions for enabling worker incomes to rise with their rising productivity. More industries were regulated. The federal minimum wage was equal to about half the average wage; today, it is below one-third. The federal government actually enforced workers’ right to organize a union. Nearly half of U.S. workers were covered by decent, federally guaranteed pensions, instead of funny-money worker-savings plans. Wall Street was more tightly regulated, and corporate executives were not able to grab such an outlandish share of the total pie. Taxation was progressive, and ordinary workers paid much lower rates. We did not trade with countries that had something close to slave labor, like the Chinese factory system.

After you read the information below, it should become abundantly clear that the U.S. middle class is in a whole heap of trouble. The new ‘global economy’ means that middle class American workers have to directly compete for jobs with people on the other side of the world where there is no minimum wage and practically no regulations. If the socialism the Tea Party is shouting about means anything in the U.S. anymore it refers to the golden circle of the super rich, who are profiting at unheard of rates whilst the rest of this nation suffers. 

• U.S. Corporations have grown massively rich exploiting third world labor pools, but middle class American workers have increasingly lost out.
• A certain someone who will remain nameless put out the idea that the rich represent the past, the poor represent the present and the largely self-made middle class represent the future. Their success is a barometer of the health of any country’s economy. By these lights, America is in a bad, bad way. Not everyone knows it, but everybody can feel it.
•  Today, only 55.3 percent of all Americans between the ages of 16 and 29 have jobs.
• In the United States today, there are 240 million working age people. Only about 140 million of them are working.
• According to CareerBuilder, only 23 percent of American companies plan to hire more employees in 2012.
• Since the year 2000, the United States has lost 10% of its middle class jobs. In the year 2000 there were about 72 million middle class jobs in the United States but today there are only about 65 million middle class jobs.
• 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are now in the hands of 1 percent of the people.
• The top 1 percent of U.S. households owns nearly twice as much of America’s corporate wealth as they did just 10 years ago. (Thanks George!).
• 66 percent of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans. (Thanks George!)
• In 1950, the ratio of the average executive’s paycheck to the average worker’s paycheck was about 30 to 50. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.
• The number of good jobs continues to decrease.
• The rate of inflation continues to outpace the rate that our wages are going up.
• American consumers are going into almost unbelievable amounts of debt.
• The number of Americans that are considered to be “poor” continues to grow.
• The number of Americans that are forced to turn to the government for financial assistance continues to go up.

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