Much of the business community wants single payer thinking someone else will eat their health care costs. At one time Trump was one of them.
Indeed, it’s Corporate America’s biggest dream. I think the mandate was a delicate balance between the lobbyists on K Street set up as a prelude to employers dumping health coverage while maintaining health insurance industry profits by forcing people to buy it once they couldn’t get it from their job.
Many times I have said that Trump is a mixture of about all of the major political figures since the 50’s. I was around when the government run health care system was on the blackboard and getting tossed. It wasn’t until Clinton’s administration when the libs woke up to the fact that if they control healthcare, they can call all the shots. They already had education. So they murdered the doctors and their efforts to cut costs in the media until, after many years, they finally BS’ed their way into the Health Care Act by thrashing the conservatives into the “they don’t care about you” point of view in the media every day and every source. At that point, they took a step closer to socialism.
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