Health Care “Cooperatives”: Can You Spell Fascism?
So now some politicians are saying, “Drop single-payer, public option insurance. It’s not selling. Let’s do health care cooperatives instead.” Don’t buy it. A health care cooperative is not a private sector solution. It’s fascist, in nature. Fascism refers to the system of government in which all property is publicly owned — as with socialism — while private property exists only in name. Think of fascism as a system where CEO monopolists, who unofficially work for the government, are allowed to make a lot of money while government dictates the show. Socialists hate this, because they want the pure and “honest” version of all-out government control, openly run by bureaucrats. That’s what the original plan to outright nationalize health insurance and medical care was. Now, in its place, they’re proposing an alternative system in which government still controls the whole medical arena — only under the guise of “private cooperatives.” Only a Republican or a “moderate Democrat” could seriously buy into such a