Originally posted by: AusmI think a plan like this will have masses of uninsured people moving to blue states.
It would be interesting to see how it would work. The nation's poor and lower classes would relocate to the socialist states. Some of the middle class and most of the upper class would end up relocating to the free market states.
The free market states would probably fare better overall since they would have the people who could afford to pay taxes to support the state in the first place, pay for their own health care or receive it as benefits, and also wouldn't be burdened by having to provide welfare and health care for the poor (which raises premiums for actual purchasers). However, they would have a shortage of fast food cashiers, Walmart employees, landscape workers, and people who work other lowly jobs or they would have to pay more money and benefits in order to have them.
The socialist states would languish and be unable to provide decent health care since businesses and anyone with money would be fleeting the state while poor and needy people would be flooding in.
Overall, the compromise is a red herring that really wouldn't accomplish anything other than to prove that a significant percentage of the population is poor and needy and cannot survive without leaching off of the work of the upper classes. We would be left with the question of, "Do we want to help the poor or do we want them to die?" "What kind of a society do we want to live in?"