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Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Yawn

Outsourced American links to Hillary (I know I know) Clinton's New York Times article entitled, Now Can We Talk About Health Care? It's worth a look. She argues that a national health care system would make American businesses more competitive globally and help to reduce the incentive to send jobs offshore. This is a start, but realistically the labor market in places where workers earn a fraction of the American wage and work longer hours without meaningful workplace safety provisions and where there are virtually no environmental standards is going to be more enticing and profitable for global companies regardless of health care costs. Democrats need to learn to argue the morality of issues where they clearly hold the high ground. Still it's good to see this being pushed.

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