01-14-2017, 01:38 PM
It's simple, but it fails at the one priority of economic elites: maximization of profits.
Medicare for all will make the for-profit bureaucracies in the private insurance business irrelevant. Because it will make costs public, the government will be under pressure to contain costs.
The insurance companies abandoned the elderly as a potential market because it did not want to pay the costs of elderly people. As a general rule, the last year of most people;s lives is more expensive in medical care than the others combined.
Profit will be the only acceptable virtue in Trump's America.
Medicare for all will make the for-profit bureaucracies in the private insurance business irrelevant. Because it will make costs public, the government will be under pressure to contain costs.
The insurance companies abandoned the elderly as a potential market because it did not want to pay the costs of elderly people. As a general rule, the last year of most people;s lives is more expensive in medical care than the others combined.
Profit will be the only acceptable virtue in Trump's America.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.