I got an idea, and personally, I like it. You can keep your insurance companies happy and get people who are uninsured in one step (well, okay, maybe you’ll need to slap a little regulation on top, but you won’t need a public option here). But it’s going to scare the pants off righties.<\/p>\n
Unionize everyone who is self-employed or unemployed. Everyone who isn’t getting health care should be a member of a union. While in said union, which would provide group plans that would reduce health care costs by roughly 66%, they would also qualify for placement services through the union, and would be able to join an affiliated credit union. Those members of the union who are unemployed would be provided with temporary coverage that would be paid out from union dues collected by everyone. Think of it as a big placement company. You’d want that union to be as big as possible in order to maximize the dues and the size of the pot, but you’d want it to have specialists that take care of employees on an industry basis.<\/p>\n
That would effectively enable everyone to buy into the insurance system without the need for a public option. But it scares the hell out of righties. It would effectively put true headhunters out of business, help to prevent the big banks from screwing as many people over, and would most likely take a stand against the right wing’s long lasting anti-union policies. The members of the union vote for the union leadership, so it’s a democratic institution…just like unions are right now. You’d just need to consolidate the leadership of the various unions. It would, effectively, enable all the people who are getting crapped on in this country to gain enough power to be on equal standing with various corporate lobbies in regards to political influence…and possibly create a balance in a very unbalanced system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I got an idea, and personally, I like it. You can keep your insurance companies happy and get people who are uninsured in one step (well, okay, maybe you’ll need to slap a little regulation on top, but you won’t need a public option here). But it’s going to scare the pants off righties. Unionize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zullnero.com\/blah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}