Wonderful overlooked fact about Obamacare--it will curtail mandatory alternative medicine coverage!

[Igel]

82. Don't call what isn't as though it were.

It has the "potential" to do this. Chortling over the health savings is premature. It's like complaining about the deficits in 2023 or how the budget surplus from 2006 was wasted.

The 2006 surplus was projected using a silly set of assumptions; 2023 doesn't exist, so no deficit for then exists.


On the other hand, I think it's likely that a lot of alternative medicine will be made purely private. Majorities don't like supporting things they don't like supporting, and when a government is the owner of an enterprise oddly it acts in one of two ways: It is entirely an owner, and shows as little regard for the public as any corporatist; or it forgets how to run an enterprise and makes it a political toy.

It'll be necessary to cut deficits and curtail spending. Since 10% of Medicaid folk account for something like 70% of the spending, that'll be cut--but since they're old or the very sick, politics will make that hard. Alt. medicine is a small part of the budget, but can be cut. And just as it was trumpeted from the rooftops when there was a 0.03% reduction in the deficit (woo-hoo! the deficit is dead!), so also the picayune savings from cutting that will be a big deal. It's like saying, "Look! A squirrel!" And then driving off with the armored car.