By the way: nothing is more reprehensible than listening to lobbyists and pols sneering at the Europeans about their "socialised" health care system.
Yesterday at the AARP he did try to explain that a government run Public Plan was not socialised medicine.
I guess what I share with him is my deep and abiding lack of comprehension that people are swayed by the whole "this is socialised medicine" or "government will get in the way" mob.
Eric Foner in Sydney Morning Herald It got pegged as socialistic and was coded as akin to Soviet communism and therefore opposed to freedom,Foner explains. "The term 'socialised' became dirty. We don't have public health care in the US because of the phrase 'socialised...
Erich Fromm in Center for Research on Globalization Psychologist Eric Fromm explained the phenomenon that the authors expressed their way: that "all modern individuals are socialised to perceive themselves as morally empty vessels willing to accept whatever is demanded of them."