07-28-2017, 02:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-28-2017, 03:00 AM by Warren Dew.)
I suspect that high concentration of wealth is a characteristic of precrisis periods, and that dissipating that concentration is a characteristic of the crisis itself. Intraelite competition may be involved in dissipating the concentration of wealth as some of the elites are destroyed and their wealth dissipated.
The effort to repeal the ACA has at least temporarily failed. This means it's likely that bailouts to the health insurance companies in the form of federal subsidies to the risk corridors - subsidies that have been ruled unconstitutional - will cease. With or without the subsidies, the ACA exchanges will likely fail in a spiral between rising prices and dropping participation.
Are the health insurance companies going to be a group of losing elites? Was the ACA itself an effort by elites - health insurers and corporate hospitals - to prevent the rise of a large group of elite aspirants, the doctors?
Will part of the crisis be a complete or near complete collapse of the health care system as currently constituted?
The effort to repeal the ACA has at least temporarily failed. This means it's likely that bailouts to the health insurance companies in the form of federal subsidies to the risk corridors - subsidies that have been ruled unconstitutional - will cease. With or without the subsidies, the ACA exchanges will likely fail in a spiral between rising prices and dropping participation.
Are the health insurance companies going to be a group of losing elites? Was the ACA itself an effort by elites - health insurers and corporate hospitals - to prevent the rise of a large group of elite aspirants, the doctors?
Will part of the crisis be a complete or near complete collapse of the health care system as currently constituted?