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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: skinowski who wrote (7407)7/8/2009 10:06:38 AM
From: Road Walker1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
Intimidating entire sectors of healthcare into keeping silent may be in the interests of misguided politicians - but not the public.

It is political reality, like it or not. Health care reform has been tried by virtually every administration, and always hit the roadblock of special interests because they didn't have a seat at the table... the politicians were trying to dictate every aspect of the solution.

This admin has taken a different tact and basically said "you will have a seat at the table and if you have one over-riding concern we can probably negotiate our way around that... but you have to accept the premise of universal care".

Putting aside what the sausage will look like at the end of the process (and if any of us want a sausage at all), from a political, pragmatic perspective it's an effective political strategy. IMHO it's likely the Obama admin will get a significant health care bill passed... disregarding if that's a good or a bad thing.
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