[MD] subject / object logic

[Ant McWatt]

Arlo stated to SA August 23rd:

But money is on what you say, "something else must be going on".

SA replied:

Could it be the impression that government cares?  These governments
attempt to help their citizens get their basic needs and medical
care.  Could it be in the attempt, just having that loud voice
declared throughout the country that we care and will try to help,
and then 'things' visibly happen that people find this caring and
visible follow through on this attempt to care - soothing and
helpful.  It is this support attempt.  Is that all we need, a big
part of what we need, a small part of what we need, or not what we need?

Ant McWatt comments:

As an educated guess, I think the UK's more established welfare state 
(despite the ravages of Thatcherism) takes the edge off the level of social 
inequality found in the US.  As I noticed in Morgan Spurlock's excellent 
Thirty Days TV series (where, for one program/me he lived on the minimum 
wage for a month) it is a relatively low minimum wage level together with a 
lack of an NHS in the US which is the critical "killer" (often quite 
literally) for working class American people and their standard of living.  
As Platt keeps reminding us, the US does have better standards in many 
medical specialisations than somewhere like the UK but if you can't afford 
these treatments in the first place then they're worse than useless.

Best wishes,

Anthony


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