> 4. Tying healthcare to employment in the U.S. will likely become unthinkable as a public health hazard.
Most people seem to agree with that already, but I'm not sure popular sentiment, or even what the political elite thinks matters.
If you look at the Affordable Care Act, plenty of Republicans had spoken positively about the ideas in the legislation prior to it being proposed, and have admitted they like parts of it after the fact. They violently opposed it regardless. Apparently it's easy to scare people about health care issues, and easy to turn that into anger at the other party.
You probably need to fully control congress and the presidency to make any changes to the fundamentals of how health care functions, unless somehow the culture of American politics gets fixed.
Most people seem to agree with that already, but I'm not sure popular sentiment, or even what the political elite thinks matters.
If you look at the Affordable Care Act, plenty of Republicans had spoken positively about the ideas in the legislation prior to it being proposed, and have admitted they like parts of it after the fact. They violently opposed it regardless. Apparently it's easy to scare people about health care issues, and easy to turn that into anger at the other party.
You probably need to fully control congress and the presidency to make any changes to the fundamentals of how health care functions, unless somehow the culture of American politics gets fixed.