As for capital-friendly, why is it capital-friendly for uninsured people to buy health insurance instead of other stuff? I'd say a new, big Gov structure creates demands for subsidies in the future which threaten greater taxes on capital. It also opens the door to addition of a public option and the capital-unfriendly Jacob Hacker scenario. You could say it's capital friendly to provide an exit from employer-paid plans, but that would also be the case for a public option or single payer.
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> The Rep position on h.c.: status quo plus more health savings accounts. The
> Dem position: require people to buy private insurance and offer subsidies to
> some of those who can't afford it. These are both capital-friendly, though
> in different ways. The more capital-hostile position - put the inscos out of
> business and socialize health insurance - is confined to the left wing of
> the DP, which is essentially powerless.
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> Auto and other old-line manufacturing businesses might be helped by
> single-payer, but do you see them agitating for it?
>
> Doug
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