Thank you for this explanation. I was a bit distracted reading the article and got the sense it was similar to our ”best” alternative to single-payer health, which got us Obamacare (I know he wanted better but still).
Yeah, they’re sort of opposites. Obamacare was a compromise, the “best” available within our horrifying system, which let the insurance companies still deny people care and make money like a silk merchant in the whorehouse district, but stopping them from coming by and beating the sick with batons for sport which they were previously allowed to do. FAIR is sort of letting the homeowners do that to the insurance companies for a change. Not the worst thing in the world, but unlike the sick, the insurance companies don’t have to put up with it.
Thank you for this explanation. I was a bit distracted reading the article and got the sense it was similar to our ”best” alternative to single-payer health, which got us Obamacare (I know he wanted better but still).
Yeah, they’re sort of opposites. Obamacare was a compromise, the “best” available within our horrifying system, which let the insurance companies still deny people care and make money like a silk merchant in the whorehouse district, but stopping them from coming by and beating the sick with batons for sport which they were previously allowed to do. FAIR is sort of letting the homeowners do that to the insurance companies for a change. Not the worst thing in the world, but unlike the sick, the insurance companies don’t have to put up with it.