Capitalism Kills Nearly 1 Million Americans Per Year

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99. The comparison that you cited was

American women with "women in 10 other wealthy nations."

That was after asking what are the metrics of "failed?" But you did not attempt to answer your own question. What are you using to measure success or failure in a nation besides posting an article about how the US falls behind other wealthy nations in maternal health care?

BTW, I fully agree that the US needs to do much better in health care, not only in maternity care for women, but in care for all of us. I favor a national health care system like Canada or the UK.

But I do not support socialism as the base for the national economy. The UK and Canada manage to provide good health care for all without eliminating capitalism.

My suggestions are to HALT the Republican push for deregulation. The Republican vision would drag us backward beyond the robber barons, back to a Medieval society of nobility and peasants. We need to bring back and strengthen the regulations from the FDR era. Then define which basic needs that we as a society will support, e.g. health care, housing, and education.

In other words, financial regulations to protect all of us from monopolies in media and corporate control of our political system, as well as to protect small businesses and entrepreneurshjp. We need a blended economy of limited socialism and regulated capitalism.