Report Card for Donald Trump

[Eric the Green]

(12-28-2016, 10:36 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(12-28-2016, 05:30 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Health care jobs are rising. I suspect it may be because of the American lifestyle and diet.

While "SAD" - Standard American Diet - has caused health problems, it's not directly related to health care jobs; it is related to longevity declines in some groups, but since those are declines, obviously health care hasn't been able to fully compensate.

The primary reason health care is a growth industry is because of the preferential status given it by tax law, in a way that encourages inefficient use of resources by tying health care costs to employers rather than to the individuals that benefit.

Individuals do not benefit from insurance companies that jack up their cost beyond all conceivable justification, and refuse to cover people when they need it. No, health insurance must be regulated at the least, and preferably put out of business and the government taken it over in the form of fair medicare for all. (of course even medicare doesn't put insurance companies out of business, since they supply advantage plans to seniors)

But with Drumpf in charge, Warren, who knows? The GOP may take all the health insurance reform that has been done and throw it all away, and give all the power back to the insurance companies. We'll see how far they get, and how well it (doesn't) work. The reason we had Obamacare at all, you remember, is because the previous approach of unregulated private enterprise and voluntary employer coverage indeed didn't work, and business asked for reform.

But then they got it, and they decided they didn't want it after all. And the predominant neo-liberalism went into high gear, as it always does whenever this essential reform is tried.