Health insurance losses out weigh the gains
One of The challenges facing Obama’s attempt to overhaul healthcare was summed up by Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman when he described it as losses loom larger than gains.Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night was an endeavor to move the balance between Americans’ fear of loss and their hope of gain from changing a healthcare and health insurance system that dives deep into their personal lives. For a while now, the often raucous debate has been dominated by fears of what might be lost if Democrats succeeded in revamping a troubled system — loss in the quality of individual care, in people’s capability to choose doctors, in their freedom from new government rules and mandates. What are your thoughts?
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