The number of people in other industrialized democracies who feel trapped at their jobs for fear of losing their (or their family’s) health insurance = 0.
That last number is particularly galling given conservative reverence for entrepreneurism. Though it’s difficult to quantify, I would bet that our dysfunctional health care system, more than any other factor, discourages entrepreneurial risk-taking in this country. Which makes all this talk about free markets all the more absurd.
Exactly. I’ve been saying this for a decade now. Small business owners should be out there with pitchforks and torches, demanding government-funded universal medical insurance.
Free market my ass. We don’ t have a “free market” in America. We have a corporatocracy. Huge, trans-national corporations have people by the balls. The best and brightest cannot go out and out-innovate and out-compete the corporations– or even offer a modest, local, smaller-scale alternative–, because, if they leave their jobs, their children will die.
