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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere's the real lesson of the Ebola crisis
If we have to have a global economy, then we have to have global infrastructure that supports that economy with healthcare being a priority item. EVERY nation on the planet needs to have up-to-code healthcare facilities. Proper healthcare standards need to be enforced every where. It's not enough to have them only in developed nations.
We cannot put the globalization genie back into the bottle. Businesses and laborers go all over the world. A contagious disease any where can become a contagious disease every where.
Hopefully, Americans are finally understanding why healthcare should be a basic part of our infrastructure that we should all pay for and support, not some benefit sparingly doled out by corporations.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)If every nation had equivalent infrastructure, the economic imbalances would be lessened.
kmlisle
(276 posts)As some of our labor organizations have been trying to do for many years on a small scale. The NEA which I belonged to for 20 pus years has been supporting right s of teachers around the world for many years It will of course require an international governing body with more teeth than the UN has presently and you know who will oppose that!
Shemp Howard
(889 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Your promoting the "new world order" under "one world government" BKA, TPP!
BTW, I agree ... The world is long passed the illusion of siloed nation-states; international collaboration, is the way forward on just about any issue one cares to name.
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)See what you did. You made Ayn Rand cry.
The Blue Flower
(5,442 posts)The world is too small to think that what affects others does not affect us.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)or actually, its colossal failures will do that for us. Globalism is an epic failure, in economy, in public safety, in public health, in basic humanity, which gets lost in the shuffle of dollars and yen and yuan...
Globalism is a political-economic theory that is demonstrably flawed. It has been tested and found wanting. Get a theory that is more based in reality and less in abuse of power, and we will talk.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)We live in a global society. People travel from continent in a matter of hours. Our world is an aggressive pathogen's dream.
There is no going back to life without air travel or automobiles or huge commercial cargo ships. THAT'S what the poster is talking about.
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)It's simply not possible.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)TinkerTot55
(198 posts)of Yavin4 for Surgeon General?
geretogo
(1,281 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)but your points are better.
We ALL live in a connected society regardless of if some repukes like it or not. We all sink or swim together when it comes to some things (the environment, healthcare...)