Health Care Amnesia

from the Working Life blog:



Health Care Amnesia
Posted on 05 August 2013.


Here is a good example of making sure the frame of a discussion is pretty narrow. And, in this case, it’s an omission that is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

The ostensible reason for this story is to talk about how union members are going to suffer most from the arrival of Obamacare:



Putting aside for a moment the disgrace of repeating the idea that union members get a “Cadillac plan” (meaning, in the U.S., they get, thanks to collective bargaining, a humane plan that doesn’t bankrupt them and actually offers real coverage), there is a grand omission. The phrase “single payer” is never uttered. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.workinglife.org/2013/08/05/health-care-amnesia/#sthash.gvUiCYjF.dpuf