Biden Could Secure His Legacy With This One Move
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There is particular cruelty in the fact that an adjudicated rapist has
twice blocked the glass ceiling from being broken. This can be fixed.
2 hours ago
Liberals and lefties who reluctantly went along with the ACA tend to judge its success in terms of its ostensible purpose: whether it can provide decent healthcare coverage for everybody. It’s structurally impossible for Obamacare to do that, so they are engaged in constant discussion about which incremental changes have to be made in order to provide a little more coverage for a few more people—until the next election, when we can get a really, really progressive president and win back the House, yada, yada.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, the insurance companies and the business press focus on what was always the real measure of Obamacare’s success: whether it can provide sufficient profitability. The defection of large insurers means that Obamacare is failing in this, always its prime, objective, and the "death spiral" has arrived. It is not—It was never going to be!—the objections of liberal or conservative critics, but the objections, and ultimately the withdrawal, of its founding business partners, that would put an end to Obamacare. The point of this program is to allow the private health insurance companies to make more profits. If they don’t, it fails, in its own real capitalistic (as opposed to its ostensible humanitarian) terms. That day has come.
See The Obamacare Death Spiral
http://www.thepolemicist.net/2016/08/the-obamacare-death-spiral.html
You would think that you could convince people who "reluctantly" supported Obamacare of the obvious (upon sufficient reflection) fact that it isn't a "step toward single payer," but I can't seem to find anyone fitting that description.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that those who didn't see through the bait-and-switch technique of ignoring single payer to work on a "more realistic" public option specifically designed NOT to compete with private insurance have worked so hard to defend Obamacare that they cannot admit to its flaws.
That's why I wrote this essay.