RE: Healthcare
June 30, 2012 at 6:23 pm
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2012 at 6:27 pm by goddamnit.)
(June 29, 2012 at 8:29 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There is already a transfer of wealth going on.....I just explicitly stated I am not talking about the status quo, and that I meant socialized healthcare would transfer wealth to minorities. Then you posted a graph that had nothing to do with contrasting healthcare models. I guess you were posting the graph for the sake of sharing rather than a rebuttal?
And it isn't the minorities who are benefitting.
Also, that graph (in and of itself) is not evidence there is a transfer of wealth or income from the poor to the rich. All it shows is that the upper quintiles have more rapid income increases. I read a great book that explained one reason why technology increases the demand for high-skilled workers and raises the wages more than for low-skilled jobs.
This is not to say there is or is not a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich; rather, I am only claiming the graph alone does not prove your inference.