In 2010, Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the most significant overhaul in healthcare funding and delivery since the introduction of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965. Democrats argue that the ACA is a step toward fixing the broken healthcare system that has left more than 50 million without insurance, and is ranked among the worst of industrialized countries. Republicans argue that the ACA is a step toward socialism.

As Sean Petty argues in the latest issue of the ISR, the ACA should be seen both as part of “longer-term neoliberal restructring and the acute reality of the post-2008 worldwide government bailouts of the financial sector.” Rather than a reform that will benefit working class people, in reailty, the ACA dishes out more austerity. Join us for discussion:

THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
Neoliberal Restructuring of US Healthcare

With Sean Petty, registered nurse, socialist, and contributor to the current International Socialist Review (ISR), quarterly journal of revolutionary Marxism

Friday, October 24th
NYU, Global Center, Rm379
238 Thompson St. (ABCDEFM to W 4th St or NR to 8 st – NYU or 6 to Bleecker St)
7pm

*** must bring id for building entry ***

BACKGROUND READING FROM ISR ISSUE 94 – FALL 2014:

Sean Petty
The Neoliberal Restructuring of Healthcare in the U.S. – p.63

Helen Redmond
The Affordable Care Act: The Reality Behind the Rhetoric – p.41

Sponsored by: The NYC District of the International Socialist Organization (ISO)