CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
The Future of Health Care
PRESIDENT CARTER ANNOUNCED in the fall of 1978 “principles” for major health-care legislation. But the future American health-care system is being built right now, and without benefit of legislation. Mr. Carter’s proposals, whatever they were, were “nonstarters.” There were days of congressional hearings on them with mountains of testimony, studies, and reports. But if these produced anything at all, it was the proverbial ridiculus mus, the ridiculous, tiny mouse.
The reason for this is not even resistance to the costs of new government programs. It is the total absence of grassroots pressure for major ...
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