@marinus18
I’m not trying to single you out, and I’m not writing this as a moderator - I’m just geniunely curious.
You say:
[Medicare] eliminates the need to invest in research by big pharma
How do you see Medicare eliminating the need for investment in research?
[Medicare] enables corporations to make strikes even harder by binding healthcare to employment
Medicare doesn’t have anything to do with health care before the age of 65. And Medicare could theoretically eliminate employer based health care if it were extended to all Americans.
So how do you see Medicare making it easier for corporations to tie healthcare to employment?
Yeah Trump’s transition team is going to go over well it seems :D
When everything is transactional, and your obligation and oath are to one person who determines your value, it’s easy for people to point at what others are getting, and what they themselves have donated or ‘paid’, and fight for a better return on their investment, or larger rewards for any promised future transactions. Then all transactions are commercial and you can incentivize anything that would normally be just a part of your job.
You can actually see this playing out in real time - Graetz’s value was a ticking clock, running down the transactional value of his past work for Trump until the clock hit zero and he was out.
It was like watching the financial clock counting down in the ending of THX-1138. It hit zero, and it was done.
Now someone else’s transactional clock is ticking.
By contrast, when everyone’s obligation and oath is to the constitution and the institutions themselves, then any transactions are unrewarded - or even punished as what they really are: bribes and collusion. Your only reward in that system for doing your job, is you did your job.