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Boycotts are as American as apple pie . . . with whole wheat crust.
Granted, the term boycott comes from Charles C. Boycott, an English land agent who got in a fracas with Irish tenant farmers over rents in 1880. Laborers refused to harvest Boycott's potatoes. Shopkeepers in the towns wouldn't trade with him. Even the postman declined to deliver his mail.
To bring people in to harvest the potatoes cost the British government, Boycott, and others over £10,000 — for spuds worth £350. In December of that year, Boycott left the Emerald Isle.
So, apparently, 100 years earlier, when American...
Boycotting good ideas?
You actually don’t have to repeal all mandates for minimum cover. Consumers need a little protection on this one. Again, in South Africa government, with the help of the medical council, prescribed that all medical insurance must cover 30 specific common and critical ailments. So things like cancer and high blood pressure must be insured. Keeping it to a few key ailments works, is not unreasonable, and protects customers from unscrupulous insurers.
What I can't understand is why the South African medical insurance can get it right and the USA can't?
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