Re: Unsolvable and beyond compromise.

[Bruce Bostwick]

On Feb 22, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Trent Shipley wrote:

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Republicans would have to be suicidal idiots to play ball with Obama  
and
the Democrats on health care reform.   They all involve increased
interference by the Federal Government in the health care market,  
which
is a cultural no-no in America.  (Leaving people uninsured is also a
no-no.  Basically, health care reform runs afoul  deeply held
contradictory cultural values.  It is not a problem for which there  
is a
satisfactory political compromise.)

Until the cultural values change.  Which I believe is happening.

The people who are against federal government "interference" in the  
health care market are *not* the people who are against leaving people  
uninsured and at the mercy of profit-based health care systems.  The  
former are a dwindling, if increasingly vocal and still somewhat  
better connected, minority, and the latter are a disorganized but  
increasingly savvy majority, and sooner or later that balance will tip  
one way or the other .. and I see it ultimately tipping in favor of  
strengthening the safety net for people that a purely profit-driven  
health care system tends to let fall through the cracks.  Maybe I'm  
too optimistic, but that's how I see it.

This conflict has many other aspects, though, and runs far deeper than  
just the health care debate ..



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