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IS CAPITALISM
A DISEASE? invested in by the health industrious,
including, hospitals, HMOs, and
Rechard Levins pharmaceutical companies. They sell
healthcare to as large a market as can afford
to pay for it; they even push it on people who
do not need it...
But they are all part of one integral
system that has to be our battleground in the
future. We have to take up health as a pervasive
issue as we do with problems of the
environment; they are aspects of class struggle,
We have created a sick society, even as not an alternative to it.
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opportunities to display our cardiac
surgery skills. We make more people
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The basic reason that programs fail ^l`tuÀkhyrk gesÀkk lkekftd gksrh gS* ^dFku* ds
is not incompetence, ignorance, or
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stupidity, but because they are constrained
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particularly for the affluent, who can buy x;k gSA bl ys[k ds fy, ge leLr ^dFku* ifjokj ds vkHkkjh
improvements in health for themselves. gSaA
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living rooms. Health is also a commodity