Wakeful Video Weekend 2022-05-20 (14 videos and important comments esp. on Medicaid Mess )

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Summary: This week I spent my free time on learning about Medicaid. Thus, the topics deal with our economic decline and our welfare-undermining like the Medicaid mess.

Stars & channels (this time a lot of commercial ones / lawyers since the Medicaid topic is hardly communicated from anywhere else, *sigh*): The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow (and Richard Wolff), Democracy At Work, Dirty Medicine, Healthcare Triage, Vox, Rabalais Estate Planning, Ettinger Law Firm, Christopher Berry, AmeriHealth Caritas, InfusionCenters, UnitedHealthcare Community & State, Pixorize

6. Our Welfare Systems Converted into More Theft for the Rich (example Medicaid)Topics:

  1. Our Dangerous Decline (Always Fakishly Disannounced by our Media and Politicians) ***
  2. Three Ways the U.S. Historically Curbed Inflation (NOT With Interest Rates)
  3. The U.S. Health Insurance Labyrinth
  4. Is Medicaid Coverage Better or Worse than Private Insurance?
  5. Medicaid Very Different in Different U.S. States
  6. Our Welfare Systems Converted into More Theft for the Rich (example Medicaid)
  7. Some Hints at Medicaid Insurance Permission
  8. Medicaid can be Combined with Medicare
  9. Pregnancy and Child Birth Can Give Medicaid
  10. Basic Medicaid vs Medicare explanation
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Wakeful Video Weekend 2021-12-05 (11 videos)

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Summary: primarily how to change our hellish (inequality & burnout) culture

Stars & channels: Melanie Poole (fantastic!!!), TEDx Talks, Thought Slime, Democracy At Work (Richard Wolff), 1Dime, The Hill, The Jimmy Dore Show, Ralph Nader Radio Hour, The People’s Party (esp. Zeynab Day & Nick Brana)

Topics:

  1. Let’s Cure the Disease of Job Status
  2. Powering Up Social Change by Story Sharing
  3. Using People’s Strengths and Wishes for Progress
  4. Oh So Heroic Elon Musk
  5. State Capitalism vs Real Socialism, Improper 1st Step Revolution vs 2nd Step
  6. The Role of Money
  7. Our Burnout Culture
  8. COVID: Is Omicron Bad or Possibly Good?
  9. U.S. Hospitals Shrinking and Closing
  10. Medical Addiction for Huge Profits
  11. People’s Party National Call, December 2, 2021

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China’s State Capitalism Stronger than our Private Capitalism

Or:  China’s “State Socialism” Stronger than our “Corporate Socialism”

After his good explanation (shared here two weekends ago) of how a socialism-inspired economy – best described as state capitalism – boosted the Soviet Union so incredibly well prior to its political collapse (yes: political, not economical!), Richard Wolff moved on to describe China’s route in another video. Unfortunately, this report is below his usually very high standard of deep insight and good explanation, which is why I share this episode reluctantly and only with a longish commentary.  Continue reading “China’s State Capitalism Stronger than our Private Capitalism”