Why is big business promoting Obama's "lite" version of healthcare reform, while rejecting plans that have many of the same features, but which would deliver better care?
The same thing as happened in 1994 (Even the same planner, Jim Cooper is involved.)
Perhaps, its because Obama's plan was designed from the beginning to fail in at least one or two critical ways, destroying our nations chances to implement a civilized health care plan and join the rest of the developed world in the 21st century.
In my opinion, the current iteration is designed to fail by means of a so called Death Spiral caused by adverse selection combined with underfunding, which will drive premiums up.
How the Death Spiral Works
In insurance lingo, a death spiral occurs when a health plan starts attracting sicker patients, which causes the price of premiums to go up, which causes more healthy people (who have other options) to leave the plan, which causes the remaining pool to be proportionately sicker, which causes the price of premiums to increase even more, eventually resulting in the plan going bankrupt-in other words, dying.
Why would the insurance industry and the Obama administration want a conspicuous failure of "universal health care" to occur?
Because the future is changing, technology is replacing people rapidly in many fields, The workplace is becoming one similar to the world depicted in Spielberg and Kubrick's film, AI. The people who today constitute the working class won't have work, and the Democrats want to avoid any new entitlements - entanglements - for the government.
Please use this thread to discuss this hypothesis? Will a conspucuous, highly visible failure via a Death Spiral occur if PO passes and is constrained by the Schumer Conditions?
We need to be demanding
single payer because "optional"
affordability isn't an option for
America.
FYI the money doesn't
exist in Obama's budget
to actually make healthcare
affordable any "optional" way.