Posted on February 16th, 2008 in Life, Politics | Comments Off
Better late, then never. In my vacations I watched Sicko, Michael Moore’s movie about heath care in the United States. He shows a number of situations where it simply doesn’t work.
People that has a private plan and got rejected when a serious decease like cancer appeared, or even people that were pretty well, but had their lungs burned because they wanted to save lives after the 09/11 accident.
A comparison is made to a different health care system applied in countries like, Canada, United Kingdom, France and Cuba. The idea is simple, everybody pays taxes and this includes health care, the same for everyone, if you are healthy you pay for those who aren’t.
In the private model, the idea is to reject more people to make more revenue, this kill people, in the public plan the idea is to make people more healthy to make more revenue, this save people.
It’s a complicated move for a country that has a private model, but it’s statistically proved that works better then the private model, people are healthier, has a better quality of life and live longer.
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Posted on December 12th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
It’s very interesting how the Brazilian political model works, anyone is legitimate to create a party, an interesting project with enough people interested and you might be approved, today we have around 26 parties in Brazil.
Generally speaking the objective of the politicians is to represent the population and take decisions in their benefits. Unfortunately what you see and hear from them it’s not it, once they need you to put them upstairs they do anything for you, when they are there, they forget you.
Today is happening something very interesting that clearly shows it, we have a temporary tax called CPMF, it’s based on the financial transactions you do, every cent you move 0.38% is for CPMF, everyone in the country is affected and should be over on December 31 of 2007, but might be prorogued by 4 more years if voted so.
We have a party that is very strong, might have the majority of the votes, their decision was to vote for not proroguing it, it’s clear that they are doing this not thinking in the benefits of the population, but creating a strategy to make their opponents weaker.
My question is, would they make this same decision if they were in the power?
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