[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=livinincali]Nobody wants to fix health care because it will be bad politically. You need to address the cost side of the equation. If you do you instantly create a recession or possibly worse a depression. Health care represents about 20% of GDP right now. If you cut in half you probably put 2 to 3 million people out of a job in the short term. It would be good in the long run as those people would find other jobs that were more productive but it wouldn’t be good in the short term. The problem is you face reelection in the short term. The one hope you might have from somebody like Trump is maybe he doesn’t really care about reelection and might do something politically bad in the short term to fix the long term.[/quote]
Haha, nobody is even proposing such.
that’s like hoping Repuclicans would cut spending and pay down the debt from the savings.[/quote]
That’s exactly the point and why I don’t see the government ever fixing the health care issue in this country. We’re never going to get to single payer because it would create a massive recession in the short term. A president could indeed choose to enforce Sherman and Clayton acts laws against health care providers that make it illegal to charge different people for the same services. That would help as you could probably force health care providers to adopt the approved medicare rates for all patients. It would simplify the billing procedure and they’d likely respond by laying off hundreds of thousands of administrator jobs related to billing and dealing with insurance rate negotiation. It would definitely help with the cost side of the equation but it would also probably put us in a recession.
So instead we get this nonsense that the republicans are working on right now. I.e. were going to act like were doing something without actually doing anything.
