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I agree Trump had nothing to do with the problems in medical care, and actually neither did Obama. The root of the problem comes from the nature of medical care -- a nature that few politicians or indeed, people in general acknowledge. Thus the merchant-customer relationship typical of textbook "free enterprise" is impossible in the case of medical care. This is why there is no good "free market" solutions to the Healthcare problem, and why the super-regulated alternative that the U.S. has adopted is even worse. It is also why those trying to completely privatize the VA via the backdoor are going to make a mess of things as well.
1. So as I said we have this this leftist canard pulled out when govt policy produces failures.
Instead of blaming policy we are told it not the govts fault the issue is that the issue can't be fixed.
2. We don't really know that it can't be fixed. Right now health care is regulated in a way to prevent competition. We don't know that it can't be fixed til encourage more competition. ake the lobbying money out of Congress and Perhaps use a system that encourages free enterprise yet gets everyone covered such as vouchers.
3. So yes, we should blame bad policy and we should and so expect better. Our problem is not the health care, its the insurance, the access and the cost. The system has been rigged by the providers, the insurers and the govt to extract as much money out of the pocket of people as possible. Like student loan programs and the cost of college tuition. By using and to some degree creating bad govt regulation the providers and the insurers use the "emergency of health" inelasticity of demand to rip as much money out of the hands of patients as possible.