(Edited) Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace urges major economic reform

[Monte_RCMS]

So your saying that there is morally sufficient national health care in America? I am not talking about “we will do what we can with the little crumbs with got” kind of health care; i am talking about real ** dignified health care** that is offered to everybody and is in principle morally sufficient for everybody’s use despite your economic position in society.

Like the NHS in London or better (although the NHS in London can have its problems too, when there is cuts in funding).

If you can provide evidence of that then i apologize. All these people in America that are genuinely concerned about health care must be pathological liars. But i have to say its quite amazing and strange that people would spend so much money going to a private doctor when free health care is so good and morally sufficient in America!! I don’t know. The rich and the American people in general are being unjustifiably attacked, and as usual its by the poor.

Something tells me i should stay London.

There is a post somewhere here on CAF to the point that patient outcomes in difficult cancer cases, etc., are better in the United States than under the “free” NHS in the UK.

Someone can do a search and find it.

 

[Matilda_Bennett]

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[Monte_RCMS]

The above titles is from an article in the National Catholic Register.

Here’s the link to page, which also includes the full text of the document issued by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

ncronline.org/news/justice/pontifical-council-justice-and-peace-urges-major-economic-reform

This document presents a world view different from what Conservatives in the USA promote, doesn’t it?

Who is right? Conservatives in the USA, or the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace?

Just found this …

djysrv.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html

Just a very short essay … even a central government like Switzerland can make impulsive decisions …

Thrifty Swiss may balk at the high cost of going green

The Wall Street Journal reported Nov 29 that Switzerland’s reliance on nuclear energy means a switch to other sources of energy to generate electricity may hit them hard in the pocketbook. The reason is the country’s parliament voted earlier this year to close its nuclear reactors by 2034.

The country has benefited from the reactors by being a profitable net exporter of electricity and by having a stable, reliable supply of energy for heavy industries. Like Japan, Switzerland is not self-sufficient in terms of agricultural production so it exports electricity and high value finished goods and gets food in return. It’s a two-way street.

Here’s where the sticker shock hits. The WSJ reports that according to a leading renewable energy think tank, the cost of new investments in hydro, solar, and wind power to replace the reactors would be $108 billion, or roughly the price of 15 new 1,000 MW reactors built over the next 20 years. Then there are also the $22 billion in decommissioning costs for the current fleet which will extend into the end of this century.

A U.S. think tank put the diversion of capital into these channels in a stark light. It told the WSJ the phase out of nuclear energy in Switzerland “will have harsh consequences for economic growth and job creation.”