This MIT book review is lousy as it is written from the ideology of racism and other leftist pet narratives! The author of the book is probably leftist leaning too!
"... “One way to turn the tide of public opinion away from expansion of the welfare state was to associate public insurance programs with dependency, and private programs with autonomy, freedom, and individual responsibility,” Horan says. “That rhetoric started in the late 1930s, and has been incredibly successful, and it’s still with us.” ..."
The 1930s was also the time when the United States federal government leapt forward towards communism and socialism under the most socialist President of all times FDR!
"... More subtly, perhaps, insurance companies and industry groups started a wide variety of seemingly public-minded campaigns to get Americans to live healthier, more balanced lives — distributing materials to schools and libraries about health and weight, and launching driver-training programs. However, Horan notes, those efforts had the effect of shifting responsibility for healthy living to individuals (as opposed to, say, environmental drivers of health outcomes). ..."
This book author is pathetic! So it must be OK when big government tells citizens in no subtle terms you need to live healthier?
"“You have this attachment of individual responsibility to insurance itself,” Horan says. “People who end up being classified as a good risk by insurance companies feel they have deserved that designation, while [thinking] the people who end up being classified as bad risks also deserve that designation. [It creates] this perpetuation of already existing inequalities.”"
What a nonsense! Anybodies risk assessment can change for the better or worse with time and effort or negligence!
This book review contains more of such dubious examples!
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