Reply #93: i can't take total credit for it, but i can't remember exactly where i heard this put forward either

[nashville_brook]

i'm thinking it might have been a guest on DemocracyNow or Market Place. it gave me the lightbulb too. conceptual framework is so important. other countries that don't share our conceptual framework on this issue think we're insane. it makes no sense to them. and this is why -- insurance has never been the framework they used to understand general welfare (and for good reason). once we jettison this toxic idea we might be able to re-imagine a system that works.

my hope is that a generation from now Americans will have the same cognitive traffic jam about 'health insurance' that europeans have now. hopefully it will seem like a giant historical boo-boo -- an unexplained wrong turn.