He's saying that the free market will eventually regulate itself even if would-be abusers try to take advantage of it.
Lol! So your answer is to let the institutions you think are operating monopolistically now do so with exactly zero oversight because that will some how make things better? Wow! The GOP base are a bunch of idiots!
Of course what you really want is more oversight and less business friendly oversight, which certainly isn't a republican position, so again, I'm not sure why you are asking the republicans to do something they are opposed to.
He's saying that the free market will eventually regulate itself even if would-be abusers try to take advantage of it.
The courts'd work that out.
Dude, you should read the NRO article I linked you to (assuming you haven't already). Andrew McCarthy writes better than I do.
He's saying that the free market will eventually regulate itself even if would-be abusers try to take advantage of it.
He's saying that the free market will eventually regulate itself even if would-be abusers try to take advantage of it.
I know what he's saying, it's a rediculous claim that is destroyed by history.
work on amending obamacare to address healthcare costs.
There are very few ways to address healthcare costs until you address all the uninsured/underinsured in this country that use ER's for primary care, the most expensive way to get healthcare delivered.
And with hospitals having to eat the cost of persons getting care without insurance, costs are driven up for those that can and do pay.
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The fact that the ER is so expensive is a major part of the problem.
And that's all that Universal Healthcare or Obamacare will do, shift the costs from those who can't pay to those who can. No real change here only government will be at the reigns. We are just stirring up the same ole' shit stew thinking somehow it's going to taste different.
Great! So what I'm hearing from you is that the ACA is a good start but much more needs to be done. Finally something I think we can all agree on.
So the next question would be; what should we do next? Some solutions provided so far are:
Repeal the ACA
Expand current public options
More regulations
Go to fully socialized healthcare system
Get government completely out of health care
Feel free to add your own big idea
That's what you got from that? How about we remove the restrictions and let people have the option to purchase insurance across state lines?
One would hope, but you never know. We might end up paying them to build it. Government ain't good with non-political merits of a project.By allowing the pipeline to be built, nobody is picking winners and losers. If it's not a viable thing with oil under $95, then it won't get built. Either way, allowing or not allowing the pipeline to be built should have nothing to do with politics. Either it makes sense or it doesn't. Let those footing the bill decide if it makes sense or not.
The point is that building or not building should be based on the merits of the project itself, not political bs.
The fact that the ER is so expensive is a major part of the problem.
And that's all that Universal Healthcare or Obamacare will do, shift the costs from those who can't pay to those who can. No real change here only government will be at the reigns. We are just stirring up the same ole' shit stew thinking somehow it's going to taste different.
You ignore price of entry issues that plague the old system. Lots of Americans couldn't make the ante, couldn't support the monthly payments to have meaningful insurance. So what the subsidies accomplish is that many of those people now contribute to load sharing. Previously, the rest of us footed the bill entirely if they had a serious problem. Under the ACA, they (& all of us, really) can pay a reduced rate when we can't afford full rate w/o employer subsidy.
It's there for everybody who gets laid off or life throws them into impecunious circumstances, and it's also there for anybody who starts their own business. It doesn't mean that people being subsidized never worked, or that they never will again.
Well, unless our Job Creator ideology has failed us in a very big way.
Kinda.
"However, in practice, the MSPP is likely only to offer additional plan choice to the exchanges, not necessarily additional competition.
As noted above, the main goal of the MSPP was to increase plan choice and competition. However, few insurance companies were in position to participate in the MSPP"
Lol! So your issue is that not enough insurers are offering their services across state lines? Well golly matt! That's a different argument then not being able to sell plans across state lines, now isn't it? What would you like to do about it? Repeal the ACA so no insurance companies can sell across state lines? Or are you asking for government to force these companies to start offering plans across state lines?
Careful now, the goal posts are a little wobbly from you moving them once already
There are still plenty of restrictions, otherwise you wouldn't see "few insurance companies were in position to participate in the MSPP". The goalposts are still firmly where I put them at "How about we remove the restrictions".
What part of, "however few insurance companies were in a position to participate", sounds like there were too many regulations in place? As the ACA continues to move on and enroll more people more insurance companies will take advantage of their new freedoms. Just because they weren't in a position to do it last year doesn't mean they won't be in a position this year.
after his failure to execute immigration law in this country, and siding with American hating illegals, he should be impeached.
Well you should talk to Boehners lawyers because you are apparently smarter than they are. I'll be waiting for that impeachment! Lol!