This is relevant to for many reasons including the one you listed- if anyone needs a more immediate reason, look at the vitriol around this issue in both congress and around the country- but perhaps the most immediate reveals in the question:This is probably a better place to it it
why, given the massive unpopularity among citizenry and health industry alike, is there another attempt to move in the opposite direction?
Because it's provides the source of the shoe drop; massive tax cuts to well heeled (who don't need help with health care). And that prospect has fueled some of the market expansion since the election. It is indeed related to our investment, and macro thread is the best place for this and similar IMO;
thanks for repeating the post here Mitch
Best I can determine the math works pretty much across ALL segments, with the possible exception of the very healthy, very rich.We need single payer pretty much immediately, at least for those of us in the wilderness of the individual market.
The primary argument (reference Graham recent pleadings) is it's socialism for our health coverage.
Of course it is, it always has been, that's why it's more economically efficient than profit markets (at the insurance provider level). Many goods and services are in that category, and proven to be so, and many are not- the US is still learning the difference
(well, I hope we are still learning; not always clear that's true )