I like to think (and perhaps i'm just bizarrely optimistic here) that the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) did break the healthcare system in a very specific way. Sort of like notching a tree, just to make sure that it will fall in the direction that you want it to. The provisions set will (eventually) help slide the US into a Single Payer healthcare system.
The man had a lot of extremely smart people put this thing together. Provisions set today will reverberate across the healthcare system for quite a while. Some provisions (like forcing insurance companies to pay out 80% of their income by law) have been a long time coming.
I don't know if we'll be around to see Single Payer in the States. I hope we do and celebrate the death to horror stories like this one.
I like to think (and perhaps i'm just bizarrely optimistic here) that the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) did break the healthcare system in a very specific way. Sort of like notching a tree, just to make sure that it will fall in the direction that you want it to. The provisions set will (eventually) help slide the US into a Single Payer healthcare system.
The man had a lot of extremely smart people put this thing together. Provisions set today will reverberate across the healthcare system for quite a while. Some provisions (like forcing insurance companies to pay out 80% of their income by law) have been a long time coming.
I don't know if we'll be around to see Single Payer in the States. I hope we do and celebrate the death to horror stories like this one.