I’m brand new to this forum and to TYT. Listening to the collective voices of many in this country, two major concerns keep popping up. The health care system and living wage jobs. I apologize in advance if this forum is not the appropriate space. At this stage, this is idea and business model is just that, an idea that maybe gets people thinking differently. The business plan has been drafted and it certainly pencils.
The idea is two fold, logistics first, health care second. The 2nd(health) s dependent on the 1st(logistics). Both phases aim to remove all the money sucking layers between consumer and producer.
Logistics- Combine all gig services such as people moving, food delivery etc, into one service. Then add additional services focusing on local businesses and last mile logistics.
Health- Decentralize the current system. Consumers pay the local medical offices directly rather than insurance companies. Remove the overhead of all the for profit layers between consumers and providers. Cutting current premiums in half still provides local clinics enough cash flow to function.
More info is available. The hypothesis is, how do you redistribute wealth, using capitalistic principles while not raising taxes or subsidizing bad processes.
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I think a lot of people shut down when they hear “redistribution of wealth,” although it’s something that’s done in every country in some fashion. There are good and bad examples.
Gig workers cover too broad of a range to be consolidated, but if you’re just talking about transportation gig work it could definitely have some form of representation nationally (ie unions). Making it a single service would require some massive infrastructure, essentially like a new postal service. Not impossible at all, and could be good jobs like the postal jobs are/were, it would just need serious investment. Like the size of the corporate subsidies our government hands out every year.
Health coverage has a lot of sticking points and misdirects and false narratives. Personally I think the insurance industry is a pox on society born from a desire to not have to help others. Some models of nationalized healthcare in other developed nations make it pretty clear that we should follow suit, but there’s so much money being made and put in pockets that the political will just isn’t there. Kind of like our military industrial complex.
I like your ideas, and I’d say capitalism, communism and socialism can all be part of one country and society. We have aspects of each in America and need to balance it better.