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It doesn’t matter if it’s better. It’s fundamentally impossible to get to there from here directly. You can’t do it politically or economically, and honestly, g
by senordevnyc 7y ago
It doesn’t matter if it’s better. It’s fundamentally impossible to get to there from here directly. You can’t do it politically or economically, and honestly, given how much of our economy is built on healthcare spending, it’s pretty stupid to try. But again, it doesn’t matter, you can’t do it in a democracy. Just like a carbon tax, if you make too much of the population hurt in the short term, they’ll just replace you with someone who won’t.
The public option is the only thing that has a snowballs chance in hell of working.
- burkaman 7y agoHow did FDR accomplish the New Deal in a democracy? How did the UK implement the NHS in 1948? How did Canada pass the Canada Health Act in 1984? How did Taiwan institute National Health Insurance in 1995?