The author wonders how we will deal with loss of health care benefits. I suspect that the "long tail" will not have the "deep pockets" of concentrated industries, and thus lawsuits will tumble, making health insurance less risky and more affordable. Lawyers love corporations as targets because they have rich, juicy money centers, and are big enough that settling with the pesky mosquito lawyer is cheaper than fighting it. When lawyers try to sue the "long tail," the smaller companies will find it more cost-effective to fight back, and will not present the cash-rich targets that lawyers crave.</wishful thinking>
Might not be wishful thinking. If enough people are hit in the pocketbook they might wake up to the abuse of lawyers and actually do something about it.
I don't know --- I think we're about an inch away from the complete government take-over of health care. In this region -- which isn't small and is rapidly growing in population, already 2/3 of the population depends on the government for it's health care, only 1/3 bothers with private health insurance.