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Originally Posted by GirlySports
is the US healthcare system just unfixable and universal healthcare impossible? What would have to happen?
I think about Canada and if we didn't have healthcare already, after 10 years of Harper now Trudeau comes in on his white horse and proposes healthcare what would be the reaction, would it even be possible or would Alberta be screaming?
Should Obama in 2008 with a new mandate and control of both house have pushed through a more complete healthcare system instead of having multiple options?
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Universal healthcare in the US is pretty much a no-go because of the money from the insurance lobby. Universal healthcare is pretty easy to setup if they want to. All they need to do is pick a single insurance company to act as the government's provider and then force all services through them.
Obamacare actually had opportunity to do just this. The Feds took over AIG in 2008 when they bailed them out. They owned the asset. AIG had a portfolio in healthcare insurance and could have been the provider of choice, just by directive. Didn't happen because of too much money in the insurance lobby.