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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Road Walker who wrote (36376)	5/2/2014 3:50:01 PM
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There are 100's of minimum standards that cars must meet to be sold in this country. Not much different than health insurance under ObamaCare. There is a difference between performance standards and options. Sure, there is regulations that says the brakes have to be high quality and the air bags need to recognize when there's someone in the passenger seat. That's the same as regulating that surgeons have licenses and wash their hands and that there are plenty of sutures and an anesthesiologist in the operating theatre. Performance standards don't tell a person he has to buy a car at all let alone a truck vs a coupe. If he wants to drive a rag-top sports car, he can take that risk. If he wants to buy a cheap, econobox, he can. And he can buy it from any dealer he chooses. But if he wants to buy a minimalist healthcare policy, that risk is not his to take. Nor can he buy one that is best suited to his lifestyle and financial resources. Let's not be dramatic. You obviously see the constraints as much less onerous than I do and the options much broader. I do not know that market that well, either, but I have looked carefully at the law. My libertarian self may be more sensitive than most but I don't see flexibility and choice. Choosing from nearly identical products from multiple insurance companies is not serious choice. There's about as much choice there as between an Accord and a Camry. No car buyer would consider that choice. The best one can say about ObamaCare and choice is that there are more than one insurance company as opposed to one government, which leaves the potential from companies to offer something slightly different, perhaps different sets of providers or gym membership vs no gym membership. Wow.

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