J.D. Tuccille on Health Care Reform Without Obamacare
We don't know what a free society might come up with for treating people's aches and pains given time to react to human needs, but Obamacare can be improved upon. A lot.
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If we'd all spent the last few generations eating swill slapped in front of us at state-run cafeterias, who would feel comfortable describing a world of gourmet restaurants, fast-food drive-ins, greasy spoons, and ethnic food carts evolving all by itself if we just swept away the federal Department of Heartburn? Yet describe the alternatives, we must, when goggling at the current if-you-like-it-there-it-goes fiasco that doesn't even rate a description as the army-issue shit on a shingle of health care systems. We can't reliably describe what a free society would come up with for treating people's aches and pains given time to evolve and react to human needs, writes J.D. Tuccille, but Obamacare can be improved upon. A lot.