the GOP (Give Obama Power party): What is it good for?
Answer: Screwing Americans and supporting Tyranny,
and covering up crimes and Treason of the White Mosque.
Well, why not? Until the whole thing collapses under its own weight and contradictions and dies like the way the old Soviet Union and East Bloc did, the establishment Republicans are going to keep on being themselves.
The author is too harsh on the Republicans in this article. I've said for years that there is really no way to "fix" an industry that is built entirely on a third-party payment system. And it really doesn't matter if the third party making the payments is an insurance company or a government agency. The whole process simply distorts the traditional mechanisms of pricing related to supply and demand by severing the link between the customer and the service provider.
The Republicans can't propose a "bold, free-market vision" for health care because even most people who call themselves conservatives would never accept it ... because the only system that would really work would have very little insurance coverage and would require people to pay most of their medical expenses out of their own pockets.