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Originally Posted by Garnet
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Originally Posted by godfry n. glad
Who said health care reform is dead?
Just today, steps were taken...
I guess we'll just have to watch, see if the requisite Justice department is adequately funded and purposed to actually have some positive effect. Expect pressure at the Senate level and full-scale whining at the Executive level ("We had a deeeeeaaal, Barack!")
As I've noted before, don't expect the rest of the insurance and finance lobbys to sit by idly while this goes down. They are going to see this as a "camel's nose". |
Camel's nose aside, I don't really understand what that will do. The root problem is the cost of medical care as well as insurance. If the anti-trust law addresses on the cost of medical insurance then it's just a leaky band-aid. |
Agreed.
Single-payer is the objective, but those in power will stand in the way of doing that. The reason? They've got a program now where they dictate the prices. They can share information at will and collude as they so wish. Making that less attractive seems to certainly be a means of dislodging some of support for the status quo.
It may only be show, too. Lots of posturing about how Obama is doing something to reduce healthcare costs by "spurring competition". It's only as good as the enforcement that goes with it.