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Of course its not highly mentioned, because its politics and its probably an unpopular consequence of the expansion. When Trump glorified his tax cuts, he didn'

Of course its not highly mentioned, because its politics and its probably an unpopular consequence of the expansion. When Trump glorified his tax cuts, he didn't exactly shout from the rooftops that the majority of those cuts would be for the wealthy and for corporations, because that too would have been unpopular. Nobody wants to see doctors being paid less, they just want a decrease in healthcare costs. I think proponents of this plan do not to want admit that lower doctor pay would be a consequence because that would be admitting a downside, which opponents would undoubtedly latch on to (again, its politics), and with the rise of populism this could be a real threat to the success of the plan to expand the healthcare.

topspin 7y ago
If the plan can't survive pointing out the various giant elephants in the room then it's not much of a plan. You have to do better than "lets hope everyone is happy to join us in pretending this problem doesn't exist." Further, of all the oxen that need to be gored provider compensation is not the most scary. Who is going to believe these people are capable of addressing the really tough aspects of US healthcare when they can't deal with even that? When the only defense is "don't talk about it"? When faced with such cowardice I conclude that what we'll actually get is more cop-outs; anyone with a non-subsistence level income will take another huge bath, the backhand rationing that is huge deductibles will continue and we'll still have a big cohort of people that get no healthcare.