5 February

Heard that joke about how the private sector is so efficient? Health insurance has gone up 28 percent in the last 4 years, and at the same time the pay packets of its bosses have more than doubled in some cases. This with government assistance to the tune of billions a year (so it's not 'private' at all). This is the battleground in so many ways. The 'public' sector has been smashed for decades by unscrupulous bastards, all about enriching themselves. It's time to put the public first again, in health, in education, in government. We had the best health system in the world before the big privatization push, now we're heading the same way most privatized bullshit goes, into the toilet fast, with a handful of pricks getting rich along the way.