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To: bentway who wrote (748692)10/22/2013 5:00:32 PM
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Bentway,
If you have 2 companies offering health insurance, it's a "competitive marketplace". The exchanges have MANY more than that.

That's stupid. Citing the number of health insurance companies does not prove that the marketplace is competitive.

For one, two or more companies can easily collude.

For another, competition among health insurance providers means nothing. Health insurance is just a middle man, despite libtards like yourself portraying those companies as the main reason why health care costs are soaring.

But most importantly, the actual providers of health care (such as doctors and hospitals) as well as Big Pharma have structured themselves so that government regulators help them become "legalized monopolies."

NONE of that is addressed by the health insurance exchanges, so for you to point to them and say health care is now a "competitive marketplace" is just plain stupid.

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