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The alternative is to carry as little insurance as you can manage. To save the health care market we need to reverse all the policies that have promoted the habits that have destroyed it. That means getting rid of all the tax and regulatory policies that have encouraged people to over-insure. Most importantly it means allowing them to have as little insurance as they are willing to live with. The less insurance we have, and the more we pay for our health care out of pocket, the better.
The very last thing we should do is double down on bad policy and force everyone into a sinking boat. Which is exactly what ACA does.
I agree and it makes sense, but thats not something that can happen today, tomorrow or next month.
It's something that's happening already. And it would happen even quicker if we made some relatively minor changes to our tax and regulatory structure.
But the insurance lobby will have none of it. It's why they successfully lobbied to turn health care reform into an insurance mandate. It's why they spent so much money making sure the Republican alternative to Obama was also one of theirs.
Yup, no disagreements there. But I'm guessing that you omitted the rest of my last post because you don't have an answer for what I asked. Not that I expected you to, but it's why I say that that making this transition is not a simple feat.