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you act as though dietary choices are not a function of class position.
this is not to say that there's a 1:1 correlation...but in the main the two are very closely linked. but you'd have to think sociologically about health insurance and not simply in terms of a professional means-end rationality to see that. i'm not sure it's worth arguing the point here, but i'd be happy to try (when i'm not pretending to work)
as for the matter of who sets the rules within which insurance operates: if you think that government setting the rules is anti-democratic, then you'd have to concede that the current system is anti-democratic and that any such system would be because any such system operates within a legal framework.
but i think that's upside-down: state action allows for at least the fiction of public participation, responds to public pressure and so opens an otherwise private area to the public. so i think it's ENTIRELY anti-democratic for corporate entities to NOT be subject to legal constraints and/or pressure and/or action by way of the state. i know the neo-liberal fictions concerning corporations as in themselves democratic, but i think the arguments are nutty.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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