[trebb]

Gonna be a phased effort to keep from causing real damage to some who are truly incapable of taking care of themselves. Getting government tentacles out of the demands that all policies cover every possible situation, no matter that the people paying for them won't ever use most of it will be a big step in untangling the government from daily health care.

Left to their own, the insurance companies will rape the people so some oversight is required - the trick is to find the minimum amount of oversight needed to prevent harm.

[Washi]

Left to their own, the insurance companies will rape the people so some oversight is required - the trick is to find the minimum amount of oversight needed to prevent harm.

If they have to compete with each other for price, value, and service, they will not "rape the people".

Simple antitrust and other low-level business laws will suffice.

Additional attention needs to be focused on tort reform, however.

[trebb]

You are correct - competition and tort reform would help keep the insurance companies from screwing the people - two areas where government is deeply involved in and it will take government action to disentangle from the idiot rules that keep insurance compartmentalized instead of wide open and to stop enabling those who would sue for the slightest thing (while ensuring that they could sue for actual torts).

Gonna take a little time to disentangle w/o leaving some potential problems that will be used as an excuse to stop the process.