We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Free-Market Medicine -- A Personal Account

Click here to access article by Michael Parenti from MRzine. 

Parenti reports on his recent surgery and learns first hand about medical care in the US. (Hint: it's really more about profit-care for the One Percent.)
The goal of any free-market service -- be it utilities, housing, transportation, education, or health care -- is not to maximize performance but to maximize profits often at the expense of performance.
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