tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685155377705481833.post2822516436074730340..comments2023-09-22T03:17:50.469-04:00Comments on Middle Class Political Economist: Hawaii Cuts Uninsured Population in HalfKenneth Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05747704671007690674noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685155377705481833.post-18556258956021751932014-03-12T01:53:13.388-04:002014-03-12T01:53:13.388-04:00There is no doubt that single payer would be bette...There is no doubt that single payer would be better. Getting rid of the private insurance companies, which have much higher administrative and profit overhead than Medicare and Medicaid, would be a good thing.<br /><br />At the same time, systems like Obamacare have been shown to work in Europe and Massachusetts, and it is a big improvement over the status quo ante. We still have a long way to go, obviously.Kenneth Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05747704671007690674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685155377705481833.post-27256940297002383882014-03-09T08:05:57.826-04:002014-03-09T08:05:57.826-04:00The failure of dems to be objective on ACA has bee...The failure of dems to be objective on ACA has been very disappointing.<br />Just a smidgen:<br /><br />http://www.correntewire.com/obamacare_clusterfuck<br /><br /><br />http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/06<br /><br />IMO ACA is the law and it has destroyed the what was left of the Obama and dem brands, could it be that was not an accident and would not the smartest people in the room be able to predict that?<br />By maintaining 18% of GDP misdirected to the HC sector,ACA preserves the mind-boggling extraction of wealth. No problem can be solved if it is set up (and solved) in the wrong units. All else is tantamount to misdirection and sophistry. The constraints – the first order units - to the problem are two:<br /><br />1) percentage of gdp; and <br />2) 100% of the population covered with equivalent care.<br /><br />Set the constraints and solve the problem. This is what in essence all the other developed countries do.<br /><br /><br /><br />mark patnaudenoreply@blogger.com