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Raven
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Registered: 2017-06-27 Farthest Right
one thing that astounds is that people outside of our discussion forum have absolutely no idea about this problem other than occasional negative experience with higher medical deductibles or insurance costs for those outside of an employer plan. when speaking with people of reasonable to higher intelligence about this coming crisis, they have an impossible time accepting the issue. their thinking ranges from, something will be worked out to we would be hearing about the issue more if it was a coming crisis. the sicker and older do not wish to accept the data for obvious reasons. the politicians are doing the smart thing for themselves by not bringing it to national consciousness as then they would have to deal with public reaction. this is like a massive hurricane before the era of weather forecasting and mass communication; just one day it happens. it is kind of horrifying that with all of the data and connectedness practically in every person's pocket these days that close to nothing important would be known.

my curiosity is peaked as to whether the political class has some sort of endgame or mitigation strategy. and how could they keep such secret for so long.

my spouse used to say that healthcare employment became a type of welfare for women and did not share Karl's view that health care admin and non-patient care personnel would be able to find employment elsewhere after a hard crash and realignment if we ended the BS. her reasoning was that many very qualified and reliable people were downsized over the past recession cycles and were forever out of the system through no fault of their own. health care admin are some of the most unqualified and unskilled people that we ever met only rivaled by big ed admin. in my community healthcare work is very convenient for many women for some supports their lifestyle others keeps them out of poverty. without this employment they would go back to or join the long commute, low wage or unemployed permanently. they could not earn even a small fraction of their current take outside of healthcare or big ed. we are talking about not being qualified to do much more than wait on tables or clerk in retail and we see this happen already. this also applies to men in these industries.

overall healthcare is provided close to home and this keeps women close to the nest and out of the commuter culture which they start to prefer later in life. when they do commute for these jobs the pay is massively too high to make it worth it for them.

healthcare is also strongly linked to women due to their perceived near constant medical needs. two hard links to women make this an untouchable issue.

2018-11-24 11:26:38