Stephan Kimmerle
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Stephan Kimmerle
@kimmerle.bsky.social
socialist, educator, organizer, journalist
I don´t think so, but it needs to be changed.
January 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A majority of migrants is pushed into low-wage labor markets and the housing crisis. These conditions harm both domestic and migrant families alike. Is it an accident, that the left is more open to discuss the immigration crisis when it's about better paid, academic layers of the working class?
January 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
H1B highlights how migrants face discrimination, are used to lower wages and weaken (domestic and migrant) workers' rights among better-paid workers. The left must also address this issue when it impacts the poorest workers.
reformandrevolution.org/2024/10/26/i...
Immigration: Make the Billionaires Pay for the Crises They Cause | Reform & Revolution
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January 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“The system is not primarily about taking care of the patient,” said Dr. Emilie Scott, who worked for a UnitedHealth-owned practice in California before leaving in 2016. “It’s, how do you get the money to flow?” - quote from WSJ article on Medicare Advantage provided by UnitedHealth
December 30, 2024 at 3:41 PM
At the same time, in the US, "over 60% live paycheck to paycheck ..., 85 million are uninsured or underinsured, more than 20 million households spend over half of their limited incomes on rent or a mortgage and over 60,000 die each year because they can’t afford to go to a doctor on time."
December 28, 2024 at 4:04 PM