07-10-2012, 09:36 AM
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Unspeakable Leakness
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Join Date: 10-11-2008
Location: Lake Huntzing
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[quote=Casual Fan;299438]The insurance lobby is too powerful to ever allow single payer.
And it's socialism. If we can regulate the private sector into doing it right, there's no reason we can't let the private sector provide universal coverage. I think THAT is where we're headed.
I'm all about regulated capitalism. Let the government send probes to Uranus and build stealth drones and maintain national parks and all that other shit the private sector can't or won't do. But if the private sector can do it, let 'em.[/quote]
The private sector can't do it, though. That should be obvious by now. Basic health care (i.e. don't cough your tuberculosis on my or my family) is a national infrastructure issue, like roads. Without it the rest of capitalism is punished because it devotes too many resources to overlapping competing systems and profit sources that benefit no one outside the health insurance industry.
Private health insurance should be available, but it can't be our only option. That creates a feedback loop that leaves us with some of the highest medical costs and worst care in the industrialized world.
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