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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (11401)	11/17/2009 11:57:16 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The folks that benefit from the status quo... insurance companies, drug companies and providers. Some of them are on board with the effort, others hope to influence it more than outright oppose it. As for big lobby's, sure any large industry that faces heavy and likely increasing political control is going to lobby a lot, but lobbying is more direct, going after members of congress, political interest groups, and to a lesser extent the public in general. They have little interest in producing such rankings. If the US is higher on their ranking than on WHO's or some other groups that doesn't necessarily help them move the political control over their industry in the direction they want it to move. Many pushing the reforms would just dismiss the insurance companies' or drug companies rankings out of hand, and even for those who don't coming up with some other number isn't much of an argument for something by itself.