US Jobs Report Not Good–Don’t Be Confused
March 5, 2021 Leave a comment
Miami-Dade County, FL: COVID-19 VERY HIGH RISK
March 4, 2021 Leave a comment
Source: New York Time: See the New York Times for much more detailed information
COVID-19 Lessons from the US Healthcare System
March 4, 2021 Leave a comment
These are some of the main thoughts and lessons about healthcare in the US:
- The US has the worst healthcare and health indices of advanced economies, and getting worse.
- The US healthcare excludes from participation or provides low quality service to important segments of the population, including the unemployed, the poor, black and brown people, the elderly…
- The US, as demonstrated by the mass vaccination failure, doesn’t have a public health system, it has a highly segmented, for profit, private health system, with limited access of the whole population
- The US healthcare system is well known to have the most expensive system in advanced economies
- The best healthcare systems in the world are national publicly-owned or directed systems.
- One of the political parties doesn’t care about the serious deficiencies of the US healthcare system, and have no intention to improve it.
CORAL GABLES CANDIDATES for “Quality of Life”
February 26, 2021 Leave a comment
Having followed a number of municipal elections in the City of Coral Gables, it is frequent that many, if not nearly a majority of the candidates’ assert their support for sustaining quality of life in the city as a central feature of their platforms.
The term quality of life is both vague and undefined–perfect for a political campaign. It is defined by the potential voter who conveys and translates “quality of life” into their own immediate concerns as a resident and voter.
In fact, quality of life has absolutely no measurable content. It can mean more development, less development or overdevelopment, more or less public security, more or less traffic, more or less racial sensitive and integration, and more or less government transparency.
Quality of life may be code words for a Coral Gables as insular, provincial, separate, well-off. over-permitted city, unsympathetic to critical social, economic and health matters of our times.
Best to ignore political slogans like “quality of life.”
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