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The $2 trillion U.S. healthcare scam

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We should be more like the French, more than a million of whom demonstrated across France recently against President Macron's law changing the retirement age from 62 to 64. Americans should be able to summon comparable rage at the $2 trillion healthcare scam perpetrated by the healthcare-government complex. The choice between the status quo and Medicare for All is not whether government should play a substantial role in the healthcare market. It already does in all markets. But it must design this market so that it honors the commitment of a democratic society to universal access to essential goods and services.

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I'm a retired philosophy professor at Centre College. My last book was Posthumanity-Thinking Philosophically about the Future (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). I am an anti-capitalist.

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