Health insurance, the 800-pound gorilla in the room
Particularly, up to now, in insurance: Up to now, this country has pitched into health insurance by far the least; insurance has been the health area in which the "countervailing forces that famed economist John Kenneth Galbraith imagined have most gone slack.
The authentic national objective in health policy, as this writer said in January 2008, is health care for all Americans, not ˜health insurance' for all. Insurance is a means to an end, theoretically facilitating health care, not an end in itself. A historic combination of industry consolidation and laissez-faire public policy made the insurance companies the gatekeepers to health care, but as written elsewhere, ˜health insurance' does not substitute for actual health care any more than ˜job training' substitutes for actual jobs.
Today we are at that moment of recognition, and--win or lose this round, on the public option--it is a watershed moment. Not for the foreseeable future will either national politicians or corporate media outlets be able to conceal the key issue of insurance bad faith.
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