>>>Buying medical insurance should be as easy as buying car insurance.
But it is not the same thing. When you buy health insurance you are really buying access to a network of doctors and hospitals. What kind of a network will an insurance company in Nevada be able to develop for people living in Alabama?
“What kind of a network will an insurance company in Nevada be able to develop for people living in Alabama?”
We need a national marketplace because Americans are a mobile people. Businessmen transact business across state borders and need to be able to have health insurance that provides access in many states. Likewise vacationers need access to doctors and hospitals when vacationing out of state.
Currently buying health insurance is not buying access to a network of doctors and hospitals. It is buying limitation to a set group of doctors and hospitals to obtain coverage.
Medicare and Tricare work across all 50 states by providing access to ANY doctor or hospital that accepts their coverage - you are not limited.
Not really
Insurance pays the costs where you are, the entities out there can be independent.
This will bring back much needed charity hospitals.
And public institutions like state mental hospitals and homes for the disabled.