When I said it wouldn't cost much at all, I meant much more. The money is there; all it needs is to be moved to where it can help solve the problem (rather, as it is, creating it).
Treat it like a problem of political economy instead of a hard-and-fast bookkeeping shortfall. Shift money currently propping up health care insurance company profits and direct it instead to propping up more centralized, more cost-controlling entities that can help at least start to bring down excess profits reaped by health providers (which often play private insurers against each other).
That, of course, would solve the problem. Your question as to the political situation that created it? Given the decades head start the movers on this corporate takeover have had, solving that takeover would take some time as well.
Sadly, things are getting so extreme the solution would either take as much time (as I prefer), or no time at all, once someone realizes the people are frustrated enough to take, shall we say, Second Amendment solutions in hand (which I do not relish).
The French Revolution should serve as a warning, and we're getting very close to pre-Revolution levels of inequity today.
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Date: 2019-04-17 01:53 am (UTC)Treat it like a problem of political economy instead of a hard-and-fast bookkeeping shortfall. Shift money currently propping up health care insurance company profits and direct it instead to propping up more centralized, more cost-controlling entities that can help at least start to bring down excess profits reaped by health providers (which often play private insurers against each other).
That, of course, would solve the problem. Your question as to the political situation that created it? Given the decades head start the movers on this corporate takeover have had, solving that takeover would take some time as well.
Sadly, things are getting so extreme the solution would either take as much time (as I prefer), or no time at all, once someone realizes the people are frustrated enough to take, shall we say, Second Amendment solutions in hand (which I do not relish).
The French Revolution should serve as a warning, and we're getting very close to pre-Revolution levels of inequity today.