Noam Chomsky on Health Care–Why has reform taken so LONG
Noam Chomsky spoke to a full capacity crowd at the Orpheum Theatre 4-7-09. Here is what he said about health care.
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Noam Chomsky spoke to a full capacity crowd at the Orpheum Theatre 4-7-09. Here is what he said about health care.
Its sad that we will have to wait for the government to take over and add real bureaucracy to the system and subsequently suffer because of a reduction in quality in medical care before morons like you get it. How do you attract the best and brightest into our medical system with altruism? You just dont get it. Monetary compensation is far more motivating to ALL people than the feelings of joy associated with altruism. Its a simple and true concept. He doesn’t get it, and neither do you.
Do you have the transcript?
pretty much anything ran by government doesnt run under the trends of free market due to government manipulation
Thanks for jumping in with this comment, appreciate it.
k
@MardiGrasMambos
Aren’t you spouting information with no supporting evidence? Why would Noam Chomsky hate freedom? Just because you stumbled across a few entry-level Milton Friedman videos on YouTube doesn’t mean you are an expert in economics. I wish you (and people like you) would research the other side of an argument before making a decision. Do you really think finding the truth is as easy as watching ten minute Ron Paul videos and reading the first thirty pages of Atlas Shrugged?
This man is a linguist by trade. He spouts statistics and information with no supporting evidence for anything. He is not an economist.
Check out milton friedman if you want the truth about government involvement into health care. Chomsky is a hack who hates capitalism because it represents freedom and hates freedom because it results in capitalism.
Ask Mr. Chomsky if he can deny that drug costs are higher here because of the Government run FDA.
REPEAL the TAX & JAIL Mandate bill nobody ever wanted..
& Send it back to “real” senators next time for a do-over..
Happy New Year!
exactly. the only cadidates ill trust are ones that wont take money from anyone except the american ppl. a true and honest grassroots campaign.
It will be very difficult, because the majority of people have been bread to be consumers. from fn iphones, to cable to all kinds of shit
Well, my thanks go to you for posting Chomsky. He’s amazingly brilliant.
I’m grateful that you took the time to watch and comment.
k
No offense meant, please; I’m just frustrated.
point taken
The title of this video posting is inaccurate because the phrasing communicates an idea that health care reform is accomplished by using the past perfect tense for have, “has.”
It’s not that it “has taken” so long, it’s that it IS TAKING so long. Single payer, the public option or anything that will make a real difference is still “off the table.”
OnTheEarthProduction jumped the gun here.
He credits companies like GM with allowing healthcare to come up in 2008 because they were being harmed by the inefficient system. But why were they not before? What exactly changed between 2004 and 2008?
@RIEKSONE Of course central banks are not capitalist. They are monopolist in nature. Politicians of BOTH parties are owned by the banks because the banks couldn’t care less what your views on abortion or gun control are. We need REAL campaign finance reform. Example: if you are a member of Congress you can NOT take money from an interest group affected by a committee upon which you sit. Period. No exceptions OR loopholes. Viable 3rd,4th and 5th political parties would also help. Won’t happen tho
i can agree with pretty much of what you just said
and these politicians are crooks both parties
but having a central banking system is not capitalist
@RIEKSONE Who prints the money? The Fed! Who won’t tell us how much money they print? The Fed! Politicians love fiat currency; they can deficit spend and instead of raising taxes, just print more money. Bush did it To the tune of $5 trillion deficit dollars. Deficit spending is a good way to bankrupt a middle class. Republicans know this, that’s why they deficit spend. The rich do NOT want socialism; they want a dictatorship with everyone else as the slaves/peasants.
i agree that this two party system being taught to young ones is wrong and true candidates are always over looked
you have it the other way around which our central banking system is responsible for which was created by the bankers
our currency is a fiat currency so your argument is flawed right from the start
but the super rich like rockefeller and george soros all want a one world socialist government
Peter Schweizer of the Hoover Institute, in an article called Noam Chomsky, Closet Capitalist states that Chomsky, who has criticized tax havens and concentration of wealth, has himself (with a net worth of $2,000,000) used a trust to avoid taxation. “Chomsky favors the estate tax and massive income redistribution—just not the redistribution of his income.” Schweizer argues that Chomsky has criticized the concept of intellectual property
Right ON! thanks for the comment.
k
The ruling class of the US KNOWS a public option will destroy their gold plated gravy train. The politicians will stop getting rich taking bribies from health insurance co’s., etc. The US ruling class is DEEPLY isolated AND inbred. I want to see it when this arrogant, corrupt and incompetent class gets its long overdue dose of reality. THEN: AETNA wouldn’t DARE to drop 600,000 people from their coverage roles like they did last week.