J.D. Tuccille on Health Care Reform Without Obamacare

If we’d all spent the last few generations eating
swill slapped in front of us at state-run cafeterias, who would
feel comfortable describing a world of gourmet restaurants,
fast-food drive-ins, greasy spoons, and ethnic food carts evolving
all by itself if we just swept away the federal Department
of Heartburn? Yet describe the alternatives, we must, when goggling
at the current if-you-like-it-there-it-goes fiasco that doesn’t
even rate a description as the army-issue shit on a shingle of
health care systems. We can’t reliably describe what a free society
would come up with for treating people’s aches and pains given time
to evolve and react to human needs, writes J.D. Tuccille, but
Obamacare can be improved upon. A lot.

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