I expect what ever Dem gets the Donkey Ticket in 2008 to exploit the hell out of the massive dissatisfaction with our health care / insurance system. It may very well be the deciding issue in the election.
Look for the Dems to 'take the gloves off' and argue for full socialized medicine.
"The disfunctions that are built into the system are working..."
There ya go.
Between runaway lawyers suing the pants off every doctor who misses a stitch while closing up the gash in a kid's chin, to the illegals clogging up emergency rooms across the country, their plan is working well.
The people in charge (lawmakers) are, unfortunately, able to afford their health care no matter how expensive it gets, not to mention being in the pockets of the wrong people, so they wait way too long to do anything about it.
The cost of health care/insurance triples in five years, the cost of gas doubles in three years; eventually something has got to give.
I'm really, really curious to see where things will be in this country in 10, 20, 50 years (if I'm still here for 50, I probably won't even recognize the USA anymore.) Barring nationwide work stoppages, a wholesale ruination of our economy, and massive (and I mean massive) marches on Washington by the proles to the point of actually busting down the doors of the Senate chamber and assuming control ourselves, I don't see much changing.
The whole system may be too far gone already and need to come crashing down to rock bottom and just be started over again. Get the FedGov back to it's Constitutional duties and nothing more, do away with the political correctness mentality, initiate and complete tort reform, enact school vouchers or privatize education and make it competitive...ahh, to dream.
Meanwhile, I'll just keep on keepin' on, and concentrate on that over which I have some control. Hunting season is coming. That's my main focus this time of year. I love the crisp, cool days of autumn in Minnesota. 87 degrees, humid and sticky today though, so it's not here yet.