Maggie Mahar continues her excellent analysis on the obstacles to health care reform:
Many reformers focus single-mindedly on getting everyone insured, but Americans don’t need health insurance; they need healthcare. By reforming Medicare we can take a huge step in the right direction, fight the fragmentation and inefficiency of the current system, and undermine the political power of the for-profit lobbyists.
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But the reformers have latched onto the myth that the problem with existing government programs are the people who are uninsured. It is like when communism didn’t work, they stuck to the story for years that it was the capitalists fault–even when they controlled nearly 80% of the world. Here they lay blame for the failure of the bereaurocracy on the few who are outside of it. It deflects criticism and keeps the true believers on board.
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