{"id":17057,"date":"2026-06-29T10:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elpunt.cat\/enricfigueras\/?p=17057"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:39:55","slug":"una-seguretat-social-i-de-salut-universal-per-a-tots-els-nord-americans-en-lloc-de-guerres-inutils-i-tant-armament-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elpunt.cat\/enricfigueras\/2026\/06\/29\/una-seguretat-social-i-de-salut-universal-per-a-tots-els-nord-americans-en-lloc-de-guerres-inutils-i-tant-armament-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Una Seguretat Social i de Salut universal per a tots els nord-americans, en lloc de guerres in\u00fatils i tant armament (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JFK&amp;apos;S &quot;HEALTH CARE&quot; SPEECH FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN (MAY 20, 1962)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VXUJErr_vfo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"lRu31\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\" style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Universal Social Security and Health for all Americans, instead of useless wars and so much armament<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">\u00abAra, les seves necessitats b\u00e0siques estan cobertes. \u00c9s propietari de casa seva. T\u00e9 dos o tres mil d\u00f2lars al banc. I despr\u00e9s la seva dona es posa malalta (i tots estarem a l&#8217;hospital, nou de cada deu, abans de morir finalment, i sobretot quan tinguem m\u00e9s de 65 anys). Ara est\u00e0 malalta, no nom\u00e9s durant una setmana, sin\u00f3 durant molt de temps. Primer v\u00e9nen els dos mil cinc-cents d\u00f2lars, que ja no hi s\u00f3n. Despr\u00e9s hipoteca la seva casa, tot i que pot tenir algunes dificultats per fer els pagaments de la Seguretat Social. Despr\u00e9s t\u00e9 els seus fills, que tamb\u00e9 estan molt carregats perqu\u00e8 estan pagant les seves cases i les seves malalties, i volen educar els seus fills. Aleshores els seus estalvis comencen a desapar\u00e8ixer.\u00bb<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"> (President John F. Kennedy, Madison Square Garden, Nova York, 20 de maig de 1962)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ted Kennedy On Health Care 1978\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LhYtMmw9OVk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">\u00abNow, his basic needs are met. He owns his own home. He has two or three thousand dollars in the bank. And then his wife gets sick (and we&#8217;re all going to be in the hospital, nine out of ten, before we finally die, and especially when we&#8217;re over 65). Now she&#8217;s sick, not just for a week, but for a long time. First comes the two thousand five hundred dollars, which is gone. Then he mortgages his house, although he may have some difficulty making his Social Security payments. Then he gets his children, who are also very burdened because they&#8217;re paying for their homes and their illnesses, and they want to educate their children. Then his savings start to disappear.\u00bb<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"> (President John F. Kennedy, Madison Square Garden, New York City, May 20, 1962)<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">\u00abAix\u00ed, doncs, qu\u00e8 far\u00e0 ara?<\/span><\/h2>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">\u00abAquest no \u00e9s un cas estrany. Fa una setmana vaig parlar amb un membre del Congr\u00e9s del meu propi estat, el qual em va explicar que enviaria la seva filla a l&#8217;escola, per\u00f2 com que el seu pare havia estat malalt durant dos anys, no ho va poder fer. I els congressistes cobren 22.500 d\u00f2lars anuals, i aix\u00f2 \u00e9s m\u00e9s del que cobra la majoria de la gent\u00bb.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">\u00abAix\u00ed, doncs, qu\u00e8 far\u00e0 ara? Els seus estalvis s&#8217;han acabat (els estalvis dels seus fills, que contribueixen en tot i que tenen responsabilitats pr\u00f2pies) i finalment acudeix i signa una petici\u00f3 dient que est\u00e0 arru\u00efnat i que necessita ajuda\u00bb.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">\u00abThis isn&#8217;t an unusual case. A week ago, I spoke with a member of Congress from my own state, who explained that he was going to send his daughter to school, but because her father had been ill for two years, he couldn&#8217;t. And members of Congress earn $22,500 a year, which is more than most people earn.\u00bb<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">\u00abSo what will he do now? His savings have run out (his children&#8217;s savings, who contribute to everything and have their own responsibilities) and finally he goes and signs a petition saying that he is ruined and needs help.\u00bb<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">(President John F.Kennedy, Madison Square Garden, Nova York, 20 de maig de 1962)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JFK&amp;apos;S &quot;HEALTH CARE&quot; SPEECH FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN (MAY 20, 1962)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VXUJErr_vfo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">\u00abAra que diem? Diem que durant els seus anys de treball contribuir\u00e0 a la seguretat social, com ha fet en el cas de la seva jubilaci\u00f3, dotze o tretze d\u00f2lars al mes. Quan ell es posi malalt, o ella es posi malata\u00a0 durant un llarg per\u00edode de temps, primer paga noranta d\u00f2lars, perqu\u00e8 la gent no abusi. Per\u00f2 despr\u00e9s diguem-ne que t\u00e9 una factura de mil cinc-cents d\u00f3lars. Aquesta factura de la qual estem <\/span><\/span><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">parlant (la factura del Sr. Anderson i la del Sr. King), no ho resol tot. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080\">Per\u00f2 diguem que s\u00f3n mil cinc-cents d\u00f2lars, dels quals mil d\u00f2lars s\u00f3n factures d&#8217;hospital. Aquesta factura pagar\u00e0 aquests mil d\u00f2lars en factures d&#8217;hospital. I despr\u00e9s crec que ell, i l&#8217;esfor\u00e7 que fa ell i la seva fam\u00edlia, poden complir les seves altres responsabilitats\u00bb.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">\u00abAra b\u00e9, aix\u00f2 no sembla una legislaci\u00f3 tan extraordin\u00e0ria, 25 anys despr\u00e9s que Franklin Roosevelt aprov\u00e9s la Llei de la Seguretat Social\u00bb.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">\u00abWhat do we say now? We say that during his working years he will contribute to social security, as he has done in the case of his retirement, twelve or thirteen dollars a month. When he gets sick, or she gets sick for a long period of time, he first pays ninety dollars, so that people don&#8217;t take advantage. But then let&#8217;s say he has a bill for fifteen hundred dollars. This bill, which we are talking about (Mr. Anderson&#8217;s bill and Mr. King&#8217;s bill), doesn&#8217;t solve everything. <\/span><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\" style=\"color: #800080\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">But let&#8217;s say it&#8217;s fifteen hundred dollars, of which one thousand dollars are hospital bills. This bill will pay these one thousand dollars in hospital bills. And after that, I believe that he, and the effort he and his family make, can meet his other responsibilities.\u00bb<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"OvtS8d\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">\u00abHowever, this doesn&#8217;t seem like such extraordinary legislation, 25 years after Franklin Roosevelt passed the Social Security Act.\u00bb<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">(President John F.Kennedy, Madison Square Garden, New York, May 20, 1962)<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FDR discusses Social Security\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/08Tn5wiN0yk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-location=\"2\"><\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-location=\"2\"><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-location=\"2\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-location=\"2\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">LA FRASE<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #808080\">\u00abQuan tenia nou anys, vaig interpretar el rei dimoni a &#8216;Ventafocs&#8217; i em vaig adonar que ser dolent \u00e9s molt m\u00e9s divertit que ser bo.\u00bb<\/span><\/h1>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-location=\"2\"><\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-location=\"2\"><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-location=\"2\"><span style=\"color: #808080\">\u00abCuando ten\u00eda nueve a\u00f1os, interpret\u00e9 al rey demonio en &#8216;Cenicienta&#8217; y me di cuenta de que ser malo es mucho m\u00e1s divertido que ser bueno.\u00bb<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-location=\"2\"><span style=\"color: #808080\">\u00abWhen I was nine years old, I played the demon king in &#8216;Cinderella&#8217; and I realized that being bad is much more fun than being good.\u00bb<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Boris Karloff<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elpunt.cat\/enricfigueras\/files\/2026\/05\/boris-karloff-1930s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17074\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elpunt.cat\/enricfigueras\/files\/2026\/05\/boris-karloff-1930s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"488\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"smW1Ld\">\n<div class=\"ewNYG X2OwRc cY5O7d\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"k8eIcb iNBnLb aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com\/faviconV2?url=https:\/\/heroesandaliens.wordpress.com&amp;client=VFE&amp;size=64&amp;type=FAVICON&amp;fallback_opts=TYPE,SIZE,URL&amp;nfrp=2\" alt=\"\" width=\"31\" height=\"31\" data-sz=\"64\" data-fbpc=\"tSCjad\" data-ilt=\"1779126035854\" \/><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"RorkHe KCmuYb dHZ7Be indIKd\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"BK5CCe sjVJQd\" style=\"color: #ff0000\">Heroes and Aliens &#8211; WordPress.com<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-location=\"2\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Social Security and Health for all Americans, instead of useless wars and so much armament \u00abAra, les seves necessitats b\u00e0siques estan cobertes. \u00c9s propietari de casa seva. 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