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Originally Posted by highthief
Most of the developed world considers accessible, relatively equitable and affordable healthcare to be a fundamental right or something close to it - perhaps the best way for this to change in the US would be to get the constitution amended and put the matter to bed.
Might that happen one day?
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I don't think so. Most of the health care industry and insurance companies benefit from keeping things the way they are and hire lobbiests to pay off polititians to vote against reform. Also many people (including government employees) have their health care insurance subsidized by their employers and the co-pays are low enough that they do not really care what the final cost is.
The poor and under insured middle class number in the millions but have not organized to hire lobbiests to pay off polititians. Probably the only chance for change will come when employers say enough is enough and require their employees to pay a lot more for insurance.