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When federal politicians finally did intervene in health care with the passage of Medicare in 1965, the insurance company model had been developing for decades. Government agencies simply could not match the private economy’s organizational capabilities. So, grudgingly, the health care reformers and progressive politicians behind Medicare built their program of government-funded health policies for the elderly around the insurance company model. Medicare’s architects also appointed insurance companies to act as program administrators, to operate as intermediaries between the federal government and hospitals and physicians, a role that they have to this day.--TC

This is some sick shit, and now I am entangled in it.

Another version.  I'm not there yet, but the path is well-lighted.  It's notable that MM's doc was produced well before the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) came into being.  Everyone is aware now that the ACA was another con job of the political establishment, a plaything of special interests, insurance and Big Pharma companies, compliant pols, and wacko right-wingers determined to stop "socialized medicine."

About the struggle.


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