Newsweek‘s Robert Samuelson would like to see a vigorous debate on the primary health care challenges we face in the United States.
He’s not holding his breath:
The politics of health care rests on a mass illusion: most Americans
think that someone else pays for their care. Workers with
employer-provided insurance believe that their companies pay. Retirees
and the poor think that the government, through Medicare (retirees) and Medicaid (the poor), pays. No one has an interest in controlling spending, because everyone believes that it burdens someone else.
