This week, we sit down with your favorite Funky Academic, Irami Osei-Frimpong, to discuss the importance of institutional participation in our social and political lives, the illusion of choice that liberalism supports, and much more.
Irami asks you to imagine being a vegetarian who has thirteen choices of meat for dinner. That’s the way we look at the dysfunctional, punishing healthcare programs that are available to most working people in this country. The free-market virtue of choice, embraced by the U.S. ruling class over the evils of socialism, guarantees that we must be free if we’re at liberty to choose our fate. But when the choice on the table is “Medicare for all who want it,” and we have either a vastly underfunded, under-enrolled public option or a prohibitively expensive private one, can we say that the liberal illusion of choice is bringing us prosperity? Would it be such an infringement of our freedoms if the U.S. government guaranteed high-quality healthcare for all, like it or not?
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Episode 33 Audio: Irami Osei-Frimpong