When Transitions Happen!

[psych0squirrel]

What seems to be the path of most democratic change, is when the liberals infilterate the conservatives and take over the status quo: this often happens later in a movement's maturity or if situations change. In different generations, there are also less animosity and old drama to overcome, neutral parties are more likely to compromise then parties

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[pstscrpt]

Getting everyone covered would be nice, but I don't see why the plans all seem to work within our current baroque system that's made to deal with not everyone having coverage. Why not just completely nationalize it (except for the few doctors who would rather work for cash, for people rich enough not to care that they're paying twice) and do away with all the administrative overhead?

[psych0squirrel]

The funny thing about people being rich enough to pay twice, that typically is the problem, they either aren't rich enough to pay twice and really resent that they can't get exactly the package they want, or scream murder about how their tax dollars are going to something they don't want. These usually aren't the people who are really manipulating things, in the past there were factions going around trying to "kill the beast" of public goods rather then just putting up with other people's desires to pool public money. Granted the people who are most concerned either make the most or are investors who are trying to be in that category.

Other then that I am not entirely sure on all the specifics. What I think is they are trying to do is scare the pharmaceutical industry and doctors into line, ie "don't just assume you're a monopoly" kind of action.