Subject: Re: The Affordability Tour Kicks Off
That's why "Plan Steve" has a tax, like a VAT.

All this has been worked out in other countries, over the last 80 years. All we need to do is adopt the best practices.

We can't. Path dependence exists. Our entire healthcare system has been built around the current payment structure, and there's no way to get from our system to their system without a lot of people being made worse off than they are now. Which represents in insuperable obstacle to making the change.

Again, there's a reason why Vermont (and others) failed to make this change. It's not because of nefarious JC's or Powers that Be - there was massive political will to get this done in those states. It's because they couldn't make the dollars work.