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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Bill who wrote (14784)	3/19/2010 9:55:40 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) of 42652

But my point is that individual buyers would grow to be the majority of the market. Companies could still subsidize the individual if they chose to, like today, but the individual wouldn't be locked into a limited group plan. That wouldn't evolve from (WAG) 10% of the market. The insurance companies don't care about the individual buyer. Now if you outlawed employer provided insurance... then yes you would have a consumer free market that would drive costs lower. You could forget all this other BS. The real distortion in the market is the employer provided "benefit"; the consumer doesn't have to open his wallet... and when he doesn't open his wallet he wants everything he can get. I would support that. Imagine... employer provided insurance is outlawed with a drop dead date in say 6 months. Imagine how the insurance companies would hustle to come up with compelling plans, that people could actually understand, to compete for a suddenly wide open market. The best solution might take a 50% market share.... bad solutions might kill the companies. It would work. Now just find a politician willing to outlaw employee provided insurance.

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