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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Just to add to that--even the so-called "public option" is just medicare-style public health insurance--not a single-payer system. One of the biggest problems with this health care bill is that it addresses only one of the two major challenges U.S. health care faces: access. It doesn't address the issue that will in the end bring the whole system down: rising costs.
A true single-payer system would help. But that was never even discussed, and probably would have been even less likely to make it out of committee.
Obama's mistake (if we can call it that--his hands are a little bit tied) is in trying to untangle the Gordian knot here. It's time to cut the thing in half and start over, but no-one seems able to do that. Failing that, reforms that improve access are nice, but they'll result in escalating costs over time, which in the long run is a major problem.
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He won't. It's a classic example of what Saul Bellow called "soft nihilism" or "nihilism without the void" in America. Ignoring your deeper problems with cultural materialism.