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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (76755)	6/11/2018 2:37:59 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356238

>> I like to think I'm pretty good at such things but I don't see any workable alternative that's not two tiered, haves with "insurance" or real insurance or self-pay and have-nots with a lean Medicaid. Which won't fly politically. A nonegalitarian approach was proposed by skinowski on the other thread, I guess about 10 years ago, which I fully agreed with. We are kind of half way there, IMO. But if the politicians realized it they would croak. >> The only other thing is to get prices down to where they're broadly affordable. To do that naturally would mean a program to create a surplus of less-regulated providers. There's lots to be fixed but it isn't insurmountable within the context of a political battle. The critical point, IMO, is that it be a equitable battle with various stakeholders represented. That didn't happen in 2009. It was the smoke-filled-room paradigm, and that a result of a momentarily powerful subgroup doing what was necessary to have its way.