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'I remember back in the 1980s sometime when a campaign for health care reform was first getting underway. At that time, the slogan was for “socialized medicine”. I remember we were meeting in a meeting room of some union in downtown Oakland. At one of the meetings, a leader announced that the union leadership had decided that we should change our slogan from “socialized medicine” to a call for “single payer”. (Since then, the slogan has morphed once again into “Medicare for All”.) I’m not sure if most other people in the room understood the difference at that time. I certainly didn’t. 'But the present Coronavirus pandemic certainly indicates it: “We have a limited number of beds; we have a limited number of ventilators; we have a limited number of all the things that are part of supportive care that the most severely affected people will require,” said Bill Hanage, epidemiologist at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.' https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/03/14/coronavirus-m4a-and-socialized-medicine/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
