Reply #37: What "legislative rollbacks"?

[RaleighNCDUer]

She will do nothing to make either the insurance or pharma industries uncomfortable. They will get their MASSIVE cut off the top, and we will get a broken system that will be worse than what we have today. Think NAFTA. The corporations will write the legislation, and the only result will be that they will be made richer by the requirement that everyone be covered - and being covered does not mean being protected, it means everyone will have to pay. We will wind up with a multi-tiered 'system' where the poorest are subsidized by the government - spurring the outrage of the 'small government' types; the lower-to-upper middle will have a sliding scale of government subsidence, covered by mandate on employers - pissing off the employers who will have less latitude for covering their share; upper class will be self-insured, raising issues of inherent fairness that some are covered by the government while the rich have to carry the burden on their own...

True universal healthcare, whether on the French or Canadian model, is the only answer, and whatever her plan is, it will NOT be that. The insurance and pharma industries would not be backing her if there was any hint of that being the case.