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.”
Ordinary citizens will largely be left out in the 2021 legislative process | Florida Phoenix
February 26, 2021 Leave a comment
With the Florida Legislature convening next week, regular citizens trying to participate in the legislative process will face tough hurdles under COVID-19 protocols set by the House and Senate chambers. For Floridians who want to engage in the process of creating laws and providing testimony, access in general will be limited and residents with disabilities will face even more difficulties during the pandemic. What’s more, the two chambers in the Legislature are inconsistent in their COVID protocols. In a Thursday briefing, a frustrated group of Florida advocates found little help in expanding public access, following a letter to several lawmakers.
Ordinary citizens will largely be left out in the 2021 legislative process | Florida Phoenix
