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The Real Problem With Covering the ‘Uninsured’, Pt.3 – Shifting the current undercurrent.

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If the current health insurance/care system is ever to be fixed, those inefficiencies will have to go. Getting to the point, the ‘expense’ of reform only appears to be the reason why health insurance/care reform has always been such a ‘political non-starter’. In reality it’s all about “Who writes the checks to pay for health care and who cashes those checks,” as Henry Aaron phrases it in his article, posted on the healthaffairs.org/blog as a follow-up to the Health Affairs publication. In order for the health insurance/care reform to be effectively successful, massive shifts between ‘gainers and losers’ would be required. How coverage is extended is a very sensitive issue with these contenders. The underlying impetus of the debate on extending coverage is rarely discussed. The strategy is to ‘over-blow’ the significance of $126 billion to provide health insurance/care for the uninsured as a means for ‘jockey-space’.

The actual money is already being spent (consumed) by the inefficiencies, but that observation will not be the highlight either. The highlight will be the ‘prohibitive price tag’ associated with effective health insurance/care reform. It’s all about who currently pays the many hundreds of billions dollars, who receives those gains and how that might shift. Be they brave or be they complacent, every ‘beltway politician’ realizes that shifting the undercurrents of our health insurance/care system could be as difficult as shifting a tectonic plate.

The reason it is so important to understand this situation right now, is because our nation is on the precipice of sweeping changes in our health insurance/care system.

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