Solidarity
Solidarity is an interested word or an interested though, today in the US, we have between 42 to 47 Million person without any kind health insurances and 52 Million total with in year without health insurance. The rest who has any insurance, they are been restricted to the access from the primary care, specialist or medication, and whether you forgot intentional or unintentional omitted information, they reserved the right to deny retroactive the access, even when you have the access you have pay some cost from hospital care , medication or physician.
The US in development world pay the most expensive care close to 7,000 USD and in some level US get very little in return, since at least 17% has not access compare to Europe, where there is universal access or Canada with a national health insurance administer by provinces, and the right to health insurance as part of the bill of rights of Canada.
The public in the US subsides health system, NHI provide grants from the basic biology to medical application and NSF provide more money for fundamental work, without the support many technology development can´t be happened. But the support does not end there, teaching Medical School, get support from the federal, state even local (city). In Puerto Rico the pharmaceuticals have tax heaven since their argument become provide jobs, which is the case in some cases. and many commercial enterprise get tax shelters, subsides and grant money as public support to the public health.
Still despited the society share or paying the cost not just we have a portion of the society without health care or the one who has is ration, the question is how we got to this point, in 1970´s Nixon with Kaiser Permanent of California conspire the creation of commercial health care where the objective is profit.
The idea of the market driving with myth whatever is good for the individual trickle down to community, the end result is a conflict with the reality we born and we die in between we get sick. The biological machine with time degrades and each time become a cost.
There another example where cost come with conflict with society as education, we are not just talking about human knowledge, but the educational system in US is a vocation to obtained a job. In the end of WWII white America give himself GI Bill where two options: one option was down payment for a house, to build a capital or legacy transferring to the own future generations and the second option educational grants, millions white America education give access to consumer life, where African Americas was deny for the second time, the first in the reconstruction after of the civil war was promise of a mule and some acre of land.
In the 1980´s with the ideal of dismantle Keynesian economy of Government involvement, where Nixon started with the most intimate aspect of existence life, health care by given Health Insurance a commercial mandate, the next was the educational system, where Regan cut grants not just the GI Bill, but any government grant and turn to loans, the educational system become just a commercial enterprise. The dismantle of the government also dismantle the access to social system.
In 1980´s and and 1990´s economic crises in Asia, Latin America, Mexico, but the total collapse of the Argentinian monetary system, in many cases money loans by the Government to factory owners, they default loans in many case ended in private accounts outside the country, where the Argentinian people could not access their own money during the crises.
There is illusion human relationships can be put into a logical system and hence, define rules can predicted behavior and one of this illusion is the science of economics. To reduce humans to simple logical rules, forget our 90% or irrationality. Our irrationality makes us to do things against our interest, form electing politician who will go against our interest, to destructive behavior, all political systems from left to right had done in one point in time, democracy for example for close to 165 years had a set of people as perpetual slaves.
There is human feeling which sprung with the same irrational state of the human condition empathy, we share experience, the same human pain of the human condition, not to say the because truly cultural difference, because geography, family, values or religion, but human condition is we born and we die in between we struggle, in this struggle we find solidarity. The idea we are individuals and there is not consequence, when economic collapse occur and situation become outside of our control solidarity born, and we can relate to the individual pain and we willing to do something to give a chance not about the individual but to all of us.