You appreciate liberal policy wonks like Hillary for their technical expertise, but has that expertise ever really benefited anyone besides insurance companies and Wall Street executives?
Yeah. If you are poor, the affordable care act was a big fucking deal. If you were already rich, the effects were more subtle and hard to notice.
Related articles on NYT also point out that most of the uninsured are poor southerners who don't want or can't afford their affordable care,
Yeah cuz the supreme court allowed the state governments to remove their subsidies. The south has a lot of conservative state governments.
This is really the case in fucking point. Due to a fluke of the supreme court, it's the law of the land in some places and not the law of the land in other places. The places where the law to give healthcare to the poor was veto'd dont give healthcare to the poor. The places where the law was implemented give healthcare to the poor. From this we should conclude that the law fucking works.
And this is why it would be really nice if the democrats could get a workable majority again and make sure the law applies to those poor people in the south as well.
It's not that the system is broken, per se; it's just that it's expressly designed to allow the private enterprises to maximize their profits, which entails minimizing the operating costs, coverage, and quality of the service – which still isn't affordable enough for the poorest citizens. Anything less than a full demolition is not enough to "fix" the system. You cannot "tame" the industry and make it less exploitative/predatory by letting it loose in your bureaucratic maze – that would be like giving the Minotaur a brand new labyrinth to romp around in.
But you can lobby this complaint against any capitalist economy. The communists did exactly that. The fallacy was they assumed that all profit seeking behavior was destructive. It's not. Profit seeking behavior can have incentives that align with consumers. Just go to any mall to see that.
The problems with the healthcare industry was that the incentives of profit seeking didn't align with the patients. They still dont align. But just pointing that out misses the fact that the incentive problems are a lot, lot less bad. The way an insurance company maximizes it's profit is to now treat people more efficiently rather then drop them.
And yes, premiums are rising. Premiums have been rising for a long time. But the quality of insurance is also rising.
This guy has a few choice words about the state of liberal health care policy,
That guy starts out by bashing the New Republic, a magazine that was taken over by a bunch of racist reactionaries and is about as liberal as the wall street journal.
Maybe Trump will beat Clinton via superior OODA loop? http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/donald-trump-2016-fighter-jock-213761
My take is be careful of post hoc explanations that are too clever by half. Maybe Trump has good OODA loops. Or maybe he was running in a field where every frontrunner was seriously flawed and the republican establishment was too delusional to see that.