Catch-22

Digby explains the sad conundrum that stymies health care reform in America...

One of the sadly ironic things about health care reform is that because we have an employer based system, unless we reach a critical mass of people being out of work or worried about being out of work, there is usually not enough political energy for taking on the massive Medical Industrial Complex. But that happens at the exact moment when the government is losing tax revenues and the fiscal scolds can jump in on behalf of the plutocrats and aristocrats and demagogue deficits. It's a problem.