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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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t's not price control. Go on healthcare.gov and see how it works for you. It's a competitive marketplace that's just a hell of a lot more transparent for the consumer than what we've had up until now (you get to see dozens of plans lined up side by side! That's great!) and has some rules.It's a free market, but not one that's entirely unfettered and certainly one that's better for the consumer.

You need to look up the definition of "free market". The ACA is about the most significant attack on the free market as this country has seen. Because there is an appearance of choice on the website, doesn't make it a free market.

You seem to be asserting that the ACA is essentially what is presented at the website. Which is a marketplace for insurance where you can compare services and prices from different providers.

If the ACA is simply and online marketplace for insurance, why did it require a 20,000 pages that nobody could ever read before it was passed?
Why did it need an act of congress at all?
If all we needed was side by side competitive comparisons of insurance policies, why didn't we remove the restriction on offering insurance across state boundaries?
And why, if this is basically priceline.com for insurance, didn't we let the free market take care of it?
And why, if this is basically priceline.com for insurance, didn't we go to priceline.com and farm out the website design and back-end integration to the insurance company systems to them?

the goal of the healthcare.gov website is not to facilitate a free market in insurance. It is a desperate attempt to put lipstick on a very ugly pig. The ACA is the first step in the government takeover of an industry. It is the first step in removing choice from the insurance industry. It is the first step in removing competition from the industry. And it is the first step in removing accountability from the industry. When something goes wrong, we won't have any recourse. There will be nowhere else to go.
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