The American healthcare system is the worst of all possible worlds. Unlike every other wealthy country, the US leaves its health insurance to the private sector, where your health and your life are a distant second to shareholder profits.
We call upon all progressive candidates and officeholders to embrace our proposal and seek to enact a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights.
I am calling awareness to the continuous misuse of the words, used as a manipulation.Â
Only a unified policy implemented simultaneously across all states and territories can get the job done, and only the federal government with its power to deficit spend can pull it off.
The point has been to make it clear that using the MMT lens and choosing to look for public purpose solutions yields full employment and a path to a progressive society.Â
“The fact we are still under a national public health emergency … should make everyone stand up and demand President Biden invoke Section 1881A immediately.”
With this kind of leadership, it is no wonder the Democrats lost House seats in the highest turn out election of all time.
“The state-based strategy relies on states passing their own healthcare systems… they must fund these programs on their own… This constraint means only a very few states are even capable of carrying out this strategy.”
