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Political Affairs
04-24-2012, 03:14 PM
Back Marxist IQ
When PA went on line a feature that I had develop,Marxist IQ ended. I was told by Joe Sims and others that it was the most popular feature that PA had in its print edition.
Here, after a few years, is the return of the Marxist IQ, five multiple choice questions which hopefully will educate and entertain. Our first is on the issue of health care in the U.S.

1. Systems of National Public Health Care/Socialized Medicine have been established
a. In Communist countries
b. In all developed industrial countries except the U.S
c. Only in poor “third world”countries
d. Nowhere on earth

2. Under the present private insurance-for profit U.S. health care system
a. Americans pay roughly twice as much as citizens in other developed countries for prescription drugs
b. Americans take roughly twice as many prescription drugs as citizens in other developed countries
c. U.S. life expectancy for men and women is below average among developed countries
d. All of the above
3. The first nation in history to establish universal health care as a right of citizens was
a. Canada
b. France
c. The Soviet Union
d. Sweden

4. Like all private insurance based systems under capitalism
a. Health insurance companies support the best care available
b. Health insurance companies stress preventive care
c. Health insurance companies treat all people equally
d. Health insurance companies make profit by giving as little as they can in patient benefits

5. The Obama administration health care legislation is
a. Legislation comparable to health care systems in the rest of the developed world
b. An end to the private insurance based health care system in the U.S.
c. A limited but significant reform that extends coverage and bars private insurance companies from refusing to insure people with prior health conditions
d. An unconstitutional assault upon individual and states rights

The numbers of the correct answers will br presented in next week’s Marxist IQ. Stay tuned and stay healthy so you don’t have to go to an HMO OR THE EMERGENCY ROOM OF A HOSPITAL AND HOPE FOR THE BEST IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE NEARLY 50 MILLION AMERICANS WITH NO COVERAGE OF ANY KIND


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Kid of the Black Hole
04-24-2012, 10:08 PM
This Norman Markowitz guy is all over Political Affiars -- it looks like he writes almost every article -- and after reading just ONE of his lame diatribes (on Chris Christie), I am already beyond sick of the shmoe.

blindpig
04-25-2012, 07:50 AM
This Norman Markowitz guy is all over Political Affiars -- it looks like he writes almost every article -- and after reading just ONE of his lame diatribes (on Chris Christie), I am already beyond sick of the shmoe.

The guy is a complete hack, consider the 'push' in #5, option 'c', how clumsy and blatant. Hey Norm, how about "a huge fucking gift to the capitalists which will improve the people's health care marginally at best, maybe"?

Nikos
04-25-2012, 08:17 AM
It is almost comical.