The day before yesterday I heard some talking head affiliated with Obama and health care, don't have a clue who, say that they're thinking that it's just too "complicated" to deal with both coverage and cost together so they thinking now is to do just coverage and deal with the cost part later. Yeah, right!
If they're going to do coverage, it is necessary for them to convince everyone that cost is handled. So, I think they'll bang the "efficiency" drum incessantly. I think most people will buy it, but to me, it is disingenuous.
I think we should be able to improve the situation, somehow, for those 5% who just have nothing. But I think what they're after is a bigger figure -- they want to include that who have nothing by choice -- which is more like 15%.
The state Medicaid programs -- part of the 15% -- are a big problem because they're breaking the states. I suppose the solution will be to federalize that problem, I don't know.
All this sounds complicated, but I'd favor it over rolling out a single government payer system, or worse, purely socialized. |
