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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (15893)	4/1/2010 11:42:52 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 42652

Competition and free markets drive down prices. Indeed. Shame that health care reformers didn't grasp that I think they all understand this perfectly well. However, they think that they can outsmart the markets and do a better and "fairer" job, and damn the costs. Inter alia, stepping back and allowing free markets and competition to do the job would make government less relevant..... and that goes against the nature of the beast.

To: Lane3 who wrote (15893)	4/1/2010 7:01:06 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

They did. That's what the market exchanges are for. However, more could have been done admittedly. And btw, I'm against a public option. I don't think that bring more private competition when you introduce government competition. If they really want to drive more competition in the health care and insurance industry, they need to develop Federal regulations instead of allowing the hodge podge of state regulations that make it more difficult for companies to do business across state lines. But then all the GOP folks would come out of the woodwork complaining about Federal encroachment on states rights. So again, there has to be compromise to get to a full solution.