Quantum Windbag
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If we don't actually have choices in coverage, then we need tight controls, and that includes minimum standards that are guaranteed to come with controversy.
Without minimum standards, we may as well all pay cash as we go and bear all our own risk.
It's cheaper (or more profitable, depending on who negotiated the contract) to lump us all in fewer and larger groups. If restrictions of competition reduces the number of groups available for efficiency or for profit, minimum standards are a must.
I understand the argument. I'm just pointing out that, for a lot of us, this sounds something like "if we're going to be prisoners, we should have comfortable jail cells".
I don't think it even gets up to that standard.