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

To: i-node who wrote (24270)	7/19/2012 12:37:27 PM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The way I understand it, the system was designed so that private insurers would gradually hand over everything to the "public option" entity, which would come to dominate the industry. But then, for lack of political support, the public option had to be abandoned, and what remained is a scheme to make it hard for private insurers to stay in business. Once "capitalism" will "fail" to be up to the task, the public option will have to be brought back in a hurry. In other words, yes, it sounds cynical, but it looks like the reform was designed to fail.