Should-Read: Duncan Black: Conservative Health Care Plan

Should-Read: Duncan Black: Conservative Health Care Plan: “Liberal Trump fanfic scenarios aside…

…the conservative plan for health care is “if you can’t pay for it, you suffer and then die.” This could be modified slightly to setting up a system by which your income is garnished for the rest of your life… or with a system that forces you to buy s—- health care insurance that you can’t afford and which won’t cover treatment anyway (ACA does this to some)…. That’s how it is, and anyone who pretends otherwise is stupid or lying. I suppose there’s some slight chance they’ll blackmail Democrats into supporting some plan which is only 90% as bad as this sounds, so that Republicans don’t get blamed for it, but otherwise that’s the only template for “replacement.