Maybe the dems just dont have the political capital to take it on all at once, or put thousands of workers out of work, but lets face it, every person in America considers health care a right. We all expect to get treated for an illness, regardless of the fine print in our health insurance policy. If we need treatment, we get it whether we can pay for it or not, and if the hospital sends you a bill for 100K, you declare bankruptcy or get on some small payment plan that will never pay off the full bill.
My point is that since comprehensive health care is everyone's expectation, whether they are willing to admit it or not, it doesnt make sense to even have a private insurance market. There should be one plan that people pay into, and since it is a single comprehensive plan, there is no room for large scale competition or profit in this market. This middle man that is the private insurance market is just an inefficiency in the system, and should be done away with. I suspect that the government run plan that the dems are putting forth is just a trojan horse to this eventual system, and I have no problem with that.
My point is that since comprehensive health care is everyone's expectation, whether they are willing to admit it or not, it doesnt make sense to even have a private insurance market. There should be one plan that people pay into, and since it is a single comprehensive plan, there is no room for large scale competition or profit in this market. This middle man that is the private insurance market is just an inefficiency in the system, and should be done away with. I suspect that the government run plan that the dems are putting forth is just a trojan horse to this eventual system, and I have no problem with that.