Saturday, February 26, 2005
Privatization Kills!
Forget at your own peril:1 comments
The profit motive will ALWAYS outweigh the value and quality of your life.
Privatization.
This story is simply disgusting. And in my beautiful home state, too.
More blood on the hands of Governor George Pataki.
Private Health Care in Jails Can Be a Death Sentence
You slowly begin to see why we entrusted certain functions within society to governmental bodies in the first place. There are certain functions where the populace needs to have the oversight power of the ballot box to wipe out the excesses and greed of the dark sides of human nature.
If you privatize prison health care, it's cheaper to let inmates die.
If you privatize prisoner interrogations, you've been promised results fast, so you get Abu Gharaib.
If you privatize military resupply, you get combat troops who get no or badly prepared food or supplies, as in Iraq.
If you privatitze airport security, you get 9/11.
If you privatize public schools, you get exploding class sizes, lower test scores, more violence.
Privatize highway maintenance, and be sure to stock up on shock absorbers and new tires for your car.
This is what you get when you privatize what are essentially public functions.
Then you get the eventual exposés.
Then comes the outrage.
Then the outcries.
A couple of people lose their jobs, the story gets buried (along with many people) and life moves on.
As long as the shareholders are never upset, then life moves on.
Since all of these firms answer to their shareholders; not to the public.
But, hey, you were able to say you cut taxes.
Yippee.
posted by Gotham 9:38 PM
1 Comments:
Interesting to see how the prison private health care system works.
By 
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December 25, 2005 5:06 PM
