I hope you're correct. But when I say this is being celebrated in left spaces, I mean it.
This guy is the professor of Columbia University, and frankly, represents everything that's wrong with the Progressive wing of the party. He is not alone in celebrating this in Left wing spaces, it is currently everywhere.
This is yet another misinformation tweet used to further inflame populist on the left. Companies agreed to limit Anesthesia and pay for it at the same rates as *MEDICARE*. It's a cost control effort because it's widely known that anesthesiologists vastly over charge. But Anesthesiologist Groups successfully lobbied, used left wing populism by flaming misinformation and now this cost control measure was killed.
Exactly. It's also why Bernie Sanders is currently cozing up to certain elements of the Trump coalition. He's a populist politician who senses an opportunity. He's also my least favorite politician, if you can't tell. Nobody is more annoying than Bernie Sanders.
All this being said, the reality is that the insurance industry is a low-margin business. UHCs margins are ~6%, their record profits are the result of massive scale and not corporate greed, and that healthcare costs are next to impossible to lower because the population is old and getting older.
