Healthcare, prisons & education net big $$$ for private sector
Jeff Moses
For profit healthcare, for profit education, and for profit prisons, yeah I’d say things are getting a little bit out of hand. Where in the world did we go so wrong that it began to seem like a good idea to have private corporations in control of people’s lives?
With healthcare the situation is dire. Millions of Americans cannot afford healthcare and for whatever reason no one seems to care.The reason being, health insurance is in the private sector and far be it for the government to try and hinder the market, and there in lies your problem, the health insurance market.
The American healthcare industry has made it so going to the hospital has become more of a financial decision than a medical one.
Education passed high school has become just the same, people seeking higher education need to think about more than just credit hours, but a multi-thousand dollar financial burden, and the way things are going high school will be that way too.
With education cuts abound in every state it’s only a matter of time before the private sector steps in with some sort of get rich quick scheme and snatches education right out from under us.
Kids will be sent to job factories, there to teach them how to function in menial corporate jobs at schools called cocacola high school, and Middle School brought to you by Haliburton.
All at a nominal fee of course and those who can’t pay the bill, they’ll get locked out just like healthcare.
The most astounding for profit venture, to me anyway, is private prisons. An industry already based in degrading and dehumanizing, just got worse.
Now instead of an almost sympathetic government running the prisons and trying to “rehabilitate” prisoners, we have private corporations with no motivation in running the prison except to make money.
What interest does a private company like Corrections Corporation of America have in treating a prisoner like a human?
The answer is none. If the soul motivation of the prison is make money I can’t expect that many of them will be feeding prisoners decently, or providing sufficient healthcare.
Furthermore, if companies are getting money based on the amount of prisoners they have locked up, how much longer do we have before they’re paying off cops judges and juries looking for new “customers.”
The point is “for profit’ doesn’t work, capitalism is an abomination and it’s time to stop thinking dollars and cents and start making sense!
