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So rdean is only going to buy products made in his state huh? Good luck with that.
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Your proposal would result in no requirements whatsoever.
So rdean is only going to buy products made in his state huh? Good luck with that.
So rdean is only going to buy products made in his state huh? Good luck with that.
not a bad idea for all products if you dont mind very low quality and very high prices. Look what international competition did for cars and everything else. Free trade makes us rich, not poor
NAFTA did not make many Americans rich.
So rdean is only going to buy products made in his state huh? Good luck with that.
Why buying health care across state lines is a terrible, terrible idea.
I'm watching Morning Joe and their guest was going on about how being able to purchase health care across state lines is the "answer" to America's health care problems. And Meeka, bless her little dark roots, was cheering him on with "I don't know why that isn't an option". A normal response from her until things are explained and sometimes even after.
Republicans and HC Companies would LOVE being able to sell across state lines.
Imagine, you live in California, but you buy your health care in New York. You need an operation so they cut your policy. Who do you go to for help? It's not likely that you would hire a lawyer, after all, you went to New York to save money. You would have to find a lawyer in New York. See?
Imagine you were one of a thousand people in California living next to a company and all of you got sick from some kind of contamination. Your HC company in New York told the state of California, "You let them get sick, you take care of them". Once again, you would end up with no health care.
Look at what HC companies do now and it's not even across state lines. Until Obama, they could drop you for having a mammogram. Or use an allergy as a "pre existing condition" to cut off your policy if you got sick. Or cut off your entire family if your son had an appendectomy.
If you are going to start selling health care across state lines, you might as well just get rid of ALL laws and make this a country of "every man for himself". No speed laws. No regulations for food or car safety. Just give everyone a gun. That'll fix things. Republicans say that's what they want. But when faced with reality, they usually start crying a different tune.
NAFTA did not make many Americans rich.
too stupid!! without Republican free trade you'd have to make everything yourself and you'd be very very poor. The more you trade the richer you get.
NAFTA did not make many Americans rich.
too stupid!! without Republican free trade you'd have to make everything yourself and you'd be very very poor. The more you trade the richer you get.
I'm guessing your the only one in a stupor over what I stated.
too stupid!! without Republican free trade you'd have to make everything yourself and you'd be very very poor. The more you trade the richer you get.
I'm guessing your the only one in a stupor over what I stated.
why not state what you said?
I'm guessing your the only one in a stupor over what I stated.
why not state what you said?
Isn't everything you post, stated on a message board?
So rdean is only going to buy products made in his state huh? Good luck with that.
not a bad idea for all products if you dont mind very low quality and very high prices. Look what international competition did for cars and everything else. Free trade makes us rich, not poor
NAFTA did not make many Americans rich.
Why buying health care across state lines is a terrible, terrible idea.
I'm watching Morning Joe and their guest was going on about how being able to purchase health care across state lines is the "answer" to America's health care problems. And Meeka, bless her little dark roots, was cheering him on with "I don't know why that isn't an option". A normal response from her until things are explained and sometimes even after.
Republicans and HC Companies would LOVE being able to sell across state lines.
Imagine, you live in California, but you buy your health care in New York. You need an operation so they cut your policy. Who do you go to for help? It's not likely that you would hire a lawyer, after all, you went to New York to save money. You would have to find a lawyer in New York. See?
Imagine you were one of a thousand people in California living next to a company and all of you got sick from some kind of contamination. Your HC company in New York told the state of California, "You let them get sick, you take care of them". Once again, you would end up with no health care.
Look at what HC companies do now and it's not even across state lines. Until Obama, they could drop you for having a mammogram. Or use an allergy as a "pre existing condition" to cut off your policy if you got sick. Or cut off your entire family if your son had an appendectomy.
If you are going to start selling health care across state lines, you might as well just get rid of ALL laws and make this a country of "every man for himself". No speed laws. No regulations for food or car safety. Just give everyone a gun. That'll fix things. Republicans say that's what they want. But when faced with reality, they usually start crying a different tune.
Imagine if you were Ted Kennedy. You live in Massachusetts, you work in Washington DC, but you travel to North Carolina to buy health care for your brain tumor (Duke University).
People already travel across state lines to buy health care, including democrats. It happens everyday. It has been happening for generations.
Are you opposed to people traveling across state lines to buy health care?
Should Duke University in North Carolina prevent people from the other 49 states from buying health care at their hospital?
Should Stanford University in California prevent people from the other 49 states from buying health care at their hospital?
Why should everyone be forced to succumb to your idea of minimum "requirements"? I certainly wouldn't think of standing in your way should you want to purchase insurance that exceeded my idea of maximum "requirements". Can't you just mind your own business?
Why should people not be able to make rules governing behavior? That's the entire basis of civilization. Your proposal would result in no requirements whatsoever. Why should the narrow interest of de facto slave state dictate policy to 300 million plus Americans?
That's exactly what the obama healthcare "plan" does. It represents a very narrow interest that wants to go way beyond just dictating policy. It seeks to control every aspect of healthcare in this country. So, why should your narrow interest trump someone else's?
That's not the problem with selling across state lines. The problem with selling across state lines is that without federal coverage standards, the result is that every insurance company will move to the state with the most lax requirements. Even realize that most credit card offers come from South Dakota? Same principle. Even better for the Republican proposal, they want to define territories as states for purchase of health insurance purposes. Hope you enjoy the consumer protections of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Of course that will happen, because no one in this country actually wants a policy that covers all the bells and whistles you are demanding.
Either that, or you are a fool.
Pretty hard to buy products that no one offers. Why would a company offer a policy to cover things they could make more money by not covering?
It is impossible to want anything that somebody doesn't sell. Try it sometime.
I'm really glad you guys have magical boxes to see in to the future and know which illnesses you're going to contract. Sadly, most people don't have the clairvoyance you all seem to manifest.
I am really sad, but not surprised, you think insurance is supposed to prevent illness.
The problem with selling across state lines is that without federal coverage standards, the result is that every insurance company will move to the state with the most lax requirements.
again, liberal and too stupid for words. If one company has lax standards they will encourage competition from companies with higher standards. We buy Japanese cars because they have higher standards for reliability regardless of what state or federal standards are.
A liberal is someone who simply lacks the IQ to understand capitalism. Sorry
Of course, NEVER give ANYONE the FREEDOM to buy WHAT they want, WHEN they want.... or *WHERE* they want... we just CAN'T HAVE THAT. I may as well NEVER shop off ebay or Amazon.com EVER AGAIN!
Moron.
It's called "COMPETITION" deanbag... get it? If insurance companies know that you'll buy insurance from SOMEONE ELSE if they continually DROP people, then they're not going to be in BUSINESS much longer. Sheeeeezuz... "FREE MARKET."
WHY do you liberal ZEALOTS *HATE* freedom so much?
And ain't that funny, that's damn close to how this country was founded and became the greatest nation on earth, and here you are bitching about it because those "rugged individuals" gave you the right to whine your pathetic little face off.If you are going to start selling health care across state lines, you might as well just get rid of ALL laws and make this a country of "every man for himself". No speed laws. No regulations for food or car safety. Just give everyone a gun. That'll fix things. Republicans say that's what they want. But when faced with reality, they usually start crying a different tune.
And don't bother "giving me a gun." I've already got PLENTY.