GOP Senator Longs for 'High-Risk Pools,' Citing Free-Market Healthcare
Senator Bill Cassidy, appearing on MSNBC, genuinely touted 'high-risk pools' as a viable, free-market alternative to the Affordable Care Act. For those who perhaps missed the pre-ACA era, these 'pools' typically charged exorbitant premiums for limited coverage, often with deductibles that ensured actual care remained a financial impossibility for the truly ill. This isn't groundbreaking,
free-market innovation; it's a nostalgic trip to medical bankruptcy for millions. Of course, the mainstream media frames this as a policy debate. What they often omit is the consistent lobbying by the insurance industry against universal healthcare, and for 'solutions' that ensure they can cherry-pick healthy, profitable clients while offloading the sick onto financially unworkable state-run
programs or simply leaving them to die. This approach isn't about 'choice'; it's about shifting costs while maintaining profit margins, ensuring that if you get truly sick, your only 'choice' is poverty or death. How many more times will we pretend that denying care to those who need it most is a fiscally responsible idea?