Thursday, March 1, 2018

Deficit Hawkery On Health Care Is Bad Politics And Bad Policy

Deficit Hawkery On Health Care Is Bad Politics And Bad Policy
"Much of health care in the U.S. is dominated by useless paperwork, which exists solely to justify or hide absurd price gouging and bloated salaries. Large parts of the industry are nothing more than a scheme to hide their legalized extortion from the public..........
American labor would be more competitive internationally without this burden of paying for employee’s ever-rising health care costs. It would also enable the whole economy to stop wasting so much time and money on a paperwork for a healthcare industry endlessly trying to come up with new ways to rip people off. This energy could be redirected to something actually useful.....No one really cares how much it costs or if it is projected to be budget neutral. Elected Republicans don’t care. They didn’t care if either the Bush tax cuts or the Trump tax cuts were paid for. They didn’t care that the wars they started weren’t paid for. They didn’t care that the CBO said Medicare Part D would add to the deficit. Importantly, Republicans were smart not to care because voters don’t care."

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