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"The debate about the Congressional push to kill the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is still raging, pro, and con. Most observers believe that the recent legislation to end the ACA mandate – the requirement that all people have to buy health insurance – constitutes a long-term threat to the viability of the Act.\nThere is the argument that the U.S. should provide universal healthcare coverage through a single-payer system the way all other developed nations do around the world. Since this would require a massive reorganization of the insurance industry and the levy of taxes to support the plan, it is unlikely that this will happen soon.\nHow did we get in this mess?\nWhat a lot of commentators don’t do is look at how we got to the situation where private insurance companies got to be so powerful. It all traces back to World War II. The U.S. government was afraid of inflation. It levied caps on wages and prices to keep inflation under control. However, the cap didn’t apply to so-called fringe benefits, one of which was health insurance.\n........"
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