Sunday, January 2, 2011

health care and the contradictions of neo-liberalism

the grouch reads....
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism.... Oxford UP 2005, pp. 79-80:

"It is one thing to maintain, for example, that my health-care status is my personal choice and responsibility, but quite another when the only way I can satisfy my needs in the market is through paying exorbitant premiums to inefficient, gargantuan, highly bureaucratized but also highly profitable companies. When these companies even have the power to define new categories of illness to match new drugs coming on the market then something is clearly wrong."

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