Robert Kuttner: Socialism

Robert Kuttner is American journalist. Explore interesting quotes on socialism.

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“By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.”

Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 6, Welfare, p. 239

“The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.”

Introduction, p. 1 (First text line.)
The Economic Illusion (1984)

“Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of any major nation. There are frequent complaints of excessive waits for elective surgery and other inconveniences, but British citizens live slightly longer than Americans, on average, and our overall health conditions are comparable.”

Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 6, Welfare, p. 250

“If social security depresses savings rates, it is only because it is unfunded.”

Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 2, Capital, p. 77