Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: How's that workplace health insurance working out now? [View all]The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)Taxes will be collected, bills will be paid with the proceeds.
We really have nothing to argue about, unless you are of such a pugnacious nature as to insist on having an argument whenever anyone exchanges words with you.
The nearest thing available to a genuine disagreement concerns the political feasibility of enacting some such program. Odds favoring success have certainly increased owing to the present crisis, which is stripping many of insurance at a time when claims presented to insurance companies are increasing. Intensive care is expensive.
However there remain political obstacles, and one of these is a quirk in our national character, for lack of a better word, which inculcates a devotion to 'self-reliance', by which a goodly number of people honestly believe they shouldn't get anything for free, that they have not earned, and neither should anybody else. Such people do not like accepting assistance from society, whether in the form of a government program or some private charity. Along with the vested money interests behind the insurance industry, and the medical people who suspect any government program will wind up cutting costs at their expense, these people will provide a sizable bloc of voting support for politicians who rise in defense of insurers, and of providers' fees.
"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden