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auditor0007 There would be nothing wrong with mandating that each state deal with health insurance in this manner. The bottom line is that in order to reduce healthcare costs for everyone, everyone must be covered and must also pay something into the system, regardless who is running that system.
None of the health insurance "reforms" being proposed in Congress would lower health care costs. On the contrary, every one of them would raise health care costs and that increase in costs would be paid for with hirer taxes or larger deficits. When Obama tries to sell his health insurance proposals by saying they will lower health care costs or slow the rate of increase he is clearly lying.
toomuchtime, I think if issues such as Illegal Immigration healthcare costs are not addressed, and drug costs, along with several other factors. The result of all of this will be exactly what you have said, higher costs, lower quality care, and higher taxes. That is why I have said that its best that the individual states decide for themselves what is best for them. As whats best for Ca. is not whats best for Az.