http://www.futurist.com/2007/10/04/a-thousand-points-of-light-some-perils-in-think-global-and-act-local-thinking/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:19:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.futurist.com/2007/10/04/a-thousand-points-of-light-some-perils-in-think-global-and-act-local-thinking/#comment-18292 Glen Hiemstra Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:11:03 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/10/04/a-thousand-points-of-light-some-perils-in-think-global-and-act-local-thinking/#comment-18292 Brenda, every issue you raise here is front burner. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein is the most recent book to explore the serious and deliberate agenda to disable the national government by off-loading almost all responsibilities to private entities and localities. Your post explains why this is a real big problem. Brenda, every issue you raise here is front burner. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein is the most recent book to explore the serious and deliberate agenda to disable the national government by off-loading almost all responsibilities to private entities and localities. Your post explains why this is a real big problem.

]]> http://www.futurist.com/2007/10/04/a-thousand-points-of-light-some-perils-in-think-global-and-act-local-thinking/#comment-18241 Kanna Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:05:57 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/10/04/a-thousand-points-of-light-some-perils-in-think-global-and-act-local-thinking/#comment-18241 Thanks for bringing up the issue of interstate mobility and healthcare. That one is huge. When healthcare is provided by smaller entities like states and employers, it restricts other kinds of mobility, too - like job mobility and income mobility. For example, I recently looked at the income cut-offs for Washington state's health coverage. The monthly gross income cut-off for a single person is around $1,700 (at that level, you pay about $90 per month for the insurance). I imagine there are plenty of people out there with this coverage, who worry about the day that they make $1,800 and lose their coverage but certainly can't afford decent private coverage. Thanks for bringing up the issue of interstate mobility and healthcare. That one is huge. When healthcare is provided by smaller entities like states and employers, it restricts other kinds of mobility, too - like job mobility and income mobility. For example, I recently looked at the income cut-offs for Washington state’s health coverage. The monthly gross income cut-off for a single person is around $1,700 (at that level, you pay about $90 per month for the insurance). I imagine there are plenty of people out there with this coverage, who worry about the day that they make $1,800 and lose their coverage but certainly can’t afford decent private coverage.

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