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...deny claims when their enrollees get sick. It's true that real reform would enhance the economic security of working Americans. But let's face it: there are lots of ways to try to enhance the economic security of working Americans. You do health care first because the status quo is unsustainable. The most pressing health-care crisis is that we're spending way more than any other country, and we're getting results that are no better and sometimes worse. And the good news, for reformers at least, is that numerous studies have shown that the system is riddled...
There are two basic points about health care reform that President Obama wants to convey. The first is that, as he put it in an ABC special in June, "the status quo is untenable." Our health care system is rife with "skewed incentives." It gives us "a whole bunch of care" that "may not be making us healthier." It generates too many specialists and not enough primary-care physicians. It is "bankrupting families," "bankrupting businesses" and "bankrupting our government at the state and federal level. So we know things are going to have to change...
Obama, who is changing the conventional wisdom, who is saying that we have to have a security system that does not depend on nuclear weapons. President [Dmitri] Medvedev from Russia. Gordon Brown. These people have finally come to realize that the status quo is a recipe for self-destruction...
...great explosion in executive and Wall Street pay began about the same time that Washington was slashing taxes on the highest earners. The top federal marginal rate plummeted from 70% in 1980 to 28% in 1988. (It's now 35%.) Some CEOs who are critical of the compensation status quo but who don't want government telling them how to pay people point to taxes as a possible answer. "I wish income was more equitable," the head of a big financial institution told me recently. "I have no problem with paying 50% taxes or more. But government meddling with compensation...
...this next couple of years are our window of opportunity for a carefully considered reset. The untenable status quo, most obviously and critically in how we use energy and pay for health care and educate our citizens, but also in the ways we define contentment, are not immutable givens. Rather, they are the results of choices we made and habits we acquired and systems we built back in the 20th century. Different, 21st century choices are now available to us. Dysfunction and profligacy aren't inevitable, and the American tendency to magical thinking can be kept in check. The diehard...