Death of a Mandate: Why Health Care Reform in America is Over

The title of the post is wrong. "Health Care Reform" wasn't present in the bill in question. The bill was a flawed effort to tweak the conduct of health insurance companies.



With the exception of Switzerland, every industrialized nation has grown up from the 1800s style of health care and placed the operation of the industry under the auspices of each nation's population - democratically elected governments. Ours has exceptionally higher costs and rampant abuses because the various service and le@ch organizations that control it have no incentive or reason to change from money-extraction goals to sensible societal goals.



Our medical outcomes are measurably worse than those other nations as well - but again there is no incentive for the le@ches to change anything. And on top of that, the majority of our personal bankruptcies are due to medical bills.



Ours is the only nation whose population is too weak, immature, selfish, and easily spooked to tackle the health care problem head on. This bill is case in point. "It's a vital first step!" was what I remember people opining when denouncing my predictions that the useful provisions of the ACA would never go into effect.



Well, the sad fact is that truly reforming health care requires FAR, FAR more than tinkering and tweaking in small steps. It requires a definitive, bold, scary jump into the cold pool.



Here in the "home of the brave," we stand quaking at the pool steps...
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