Posts Tagged ‘privatization’
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More Wealth, More Jobs, but Not for Everyone
In China, farmers whose land has been turned into factories are making more steel than the world needs. In America, idled steelworkers are contemplating how to live off the land… Trade deals, immigrant labor, automation: As Mr. Arkenbout sees it, these are all just instruments wielded in pursuit of the same goal — paying him less so corporations can keep more. “When they don’t need me anymore,” he said, “I’m nothing.”
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, participation, pensions, poverty, privatization, standard of living
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America’s Sorry State Is No Accident
America is a mess. The world’s sole superpower seems cleaved by race, income disparity and social divisions. Worse, a disturbing number of Americans subscribe to beliefs that are ill-informed, insane or just plain wrong… The only plausible explanation for such aberrant American public opinion is that people in the U.S. are exposed to a vastly different worldview. A misinformation campaign of a scale enormous enough to account for the enfeebled U.S. zeitgeist speaks to how much some special interests gain in investing in and promoting such systemic ignorance.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, privatization, standard of living, tax
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How did all these opponents of two-tier health care miss it popping up everywhere around them?
… how can people so ostensibly outraged at privilege and in favour of the common person be unaware that our system is so skewed? Or uninterested in it? And how can they denounce “two-tier” medicine, when we have at least four major tiers and lots of minor ones inside it, including famous politicians getting treatment at private for-profit clinics?
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, privatization, standard of living
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Medicare should be strengthened, not torn down
If patients who can afford private insurance are allowed to buy themselves out of the public system, it will create the two-tier structure that Canadian medicare advocates have been fighting to head off for decades… It’s fundamental to medicare that all should be treated equitably. If you’re moved ahead in the queue it should be because your condition requires it. Not because you can fatten the pocketbooks of health care providers.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, privatization, rights, standard of living, tax
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Six things you need to know about the greatest threat to medicare in a generation
Anyone who tells you this is about “choice” is missing the point. We already have the option in Canada for doctors to opt out of the public system and charge what they want in boutique clinics. What Dr. Profit wants to do is enrich himself further, by charging unlimited amounts for services and then turn around and charge government and tax payers for this… Evidence from around the world shows private clinics erode public health care and increase wait times.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, privatization, rights, standard of living, tax
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Private vs. public: B.C. case could reshape medicare
… the case will… expose many of the absurdities and contradictions in the way we fund and regulate health care… The reality is that Canada already has a hybrid system, with 70 per cent of care publicly funded and 30 per cent privately funded. What makes this country unique, however, is it is the only one that bans private insurance for hospital and physician care but, at the same time, makes most patients depend on private insurance for prescription drugs, dental care and long-term care.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, Health, ideology, privatization, rights, standard of living, tax
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Next Economy: Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World?
A not-for-profit world could create the space for us to acknowledge that human needs are complex, and that not all of them are best met by a marketplace driven by for-profit corporations. Rather than relying on the market to figure out how to meet those needs all the time, a not-for-profit world creates space for us to meet the portion of our needs outside of the market through more free time, stronger communities, more personal connection and generally higher levels of well being.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax
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How far are Ontario doctors prepared to push their demands?
Those who cheer on the Ontario’s doctors’ vote as a defeat for the Wynne government and the OMA’s much-criticized leadership must say how much they willing to pay to satisfy the doctors… are Ontario’s doctors themselves willing to support higher taxes in order to finance the higher fees they feel they need to provide proper services? Alternatively, what would they suggest the government cut in order to give them a bigger budget for their services?
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, privatization, rights, standard of living, tax
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Dinging the rent-seekers
Business leaders try to maximize economic rents; economists try to keep them as close to zero as possible… winners aren’t much interested in abandoning their privileged status in order to increase total incomes. And since rent-seekers are invariably well-connected in political circles… they’re usually pretty good at defending their positions… Moreover, the usual policy remedies for dealing with rent seeking are losing political support…. figuring out the technicalities of taxing economic rents is going to move higher up on the policy agenda.
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The case against privatizing Hydro One
Wynne is no privatization ideologue, but she wants to use about $4 billion of the proceeds from the privatization to build public transit and infrastructure. These things need to be built, but is the solution to sell off vital public assets in order to build new vital public assets? Or is it time to begin reversing the tax-cut binges of recent decades that have left provincial and federal cupboards bare, while bestowing tax savings mostly on corporations and the well-to-do?
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization, tax
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