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by sectiondetail 2384 days ago
The word "health" occurs precisely once in this article, and only in the context of encouraging job mobility. Not health care for all to end the obscenity known as "medical debt". Not health care for all to enable early detection of preventable illnesses and thus improve quality of life for those who aren't wealthy. Not health care for all to stamp out communicable diseases before they get a foothold in tight-knit poor communities.

No, just some tax subsidies to allow for easier HR headhunting.

I was once a capitalist. Then I saw how it worked. Accounting graduate. Interned and offered a permanent job at a Big Four. Drank the koolaid. Then 2008 happened, and the scales fell from my eyes. Capitalism's "growth for the sake of growth" ideology is the ideology of a cancer cell.