Sirota: The Single-Payer Signal in the Obamacare Noise
Remember--ACA enables state single payer in 2017
http://www.nationofchange.org/single-payer-signal-obamacare-noise-1383294715
One way to detect this signal is to consider the White House guest list.
In trying to show that he was successfully managing the Obamacare roll out, the president last week staged a high-profile White House meeting with private health insurance executives — aka Obamacare's middlemen. The spectacle of a president begging these middlemen for help was a reminder that Obamacare did not limit the power of the insurance companies as a single-payer system would. The new law instead cemented the industry's profit-extracting role in the larger health system — and it still leaves millions without insurance.
The second way to see this single-payer signal is to behold the Obamacare-related congressional hearings. During the proceedings, you've been hearing a lot about the insurance enrollment website that the government is paying millions to insurer UnitedHealth Group to build.
But you're not hearing much about actual health care. That's because the insurance industry wrote the Affordable Care Act, meaning the new statute's top priority isn't delivering health services. Obamacare is primarily about getting the insurance industry more customers and government contracts, whether or not that actually improves health services.
The third way to see this single-payer signal is to simply experience the confusion about Obamacare for yourself.
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...if you don't have good apples to start with. If you put rotten, corrupt apples into your pie, you're gonna end up with a rotten, corrupt apple pie when its all said and done.
- It's food science.
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