Love It or Hate It, Obamacare's Spurring Interest in the Pathology of Health Care

[marmar]

Love It or Hate It, Obamacare's Spurring Interest in the Pathology of Health Care

Tuesday, 21 January 2014 09:38
By Philip Caper, Bangor Daily News | Op-Ed


Love it or hate it, even if ObamaCare never fully achieves its intended benefits, it has already had some unintended ones.

First, it has destabilized our deeply dysfunctional health-care system. By doing so, the law has created a real opportunity to fundamentally restructure the way we finance and deliver health care.

Second, the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act has shined a spotlight on how unnecessarily complicated our fragmented health insurance system is, and how great is the need to fundamentally reform it. That in turn has reignited public interest in further reform, and strengthened a growing popular movement.

For example, this past October well over 100 people turned out in Portland on the second night of the World Series to view a movie and discussion about health-care reform. Here in the heart of Red Sox Nation, that is notable. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21351-love-it-or-hate-it-obamacares-spurring-interest-in-the-pathology-of-health-care

[Ron Green]

1. It was 20 years ago Harry and Louise slapped down Hillary Clinton's

modest HC reform proposal without much effort. That's not gonna happen again; it's dinner-table talk now, and single-payer is the obvious solution that won't go away.

[Scuba]

2. Medicare for All, including dental, mental health, optical and hearing aids. Thanks.

[Doctor_J]

3. More 12D chess

yippee. I hope the millions who still won't have HC can take the long view