Posted on 04/18/2015 11:33:06 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
In 49 states, there are basically two options for public health insurance programs: Medicaid for the very poor, and subsidized private health insurance on the Affordable Care Act's exchanges for everyone else. Minnesota is the exception. Unlike every other state, it has a third option in the middle: MinnesotaCare. Created in the 1990s, MinnesotaCare covers people who earn too much money for Medical Assistance (Minnesota's Medicaid program) but not enough to qualify for MNsure, the state's health insurance exchange.
http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_27929905/if-minnesotacare-goes-heres-whats-at-stake
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Health insurance was, is and will forever be a business just like a restaurant or a dry cleaners.
Just because it deals with a frequently emotional subject does not mean that government is obliged to get involved in a particular business no matter how many sob stories are told.
Leftists are forever dodging reality and the laws of economics. They believe that increasing demand by subsidizing the already-ill and the indigent will not affect supply and/or raise prices.
They should outlaw health insurance. The free market would handle it from there.
Wouldn't outlawing health insurance put a big crimp in the free market? Government involvement in the health insurance market certainly has not been helpful, going back to World War II price and wage controls.
I assume you mean they should Outlaw GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT in Health Insurance.
That way, people choose to get a Health Insurance Policy or Self Insure without being punished for their decisions.
No, outlaw health insurance. It inflates healthcare costs the same way student loans inflate college tuitions.
I think a free market for health insurance would be fine and would not increase costs.
It would have to be decoupled from providers, who should also compete in a free market.
The problem begins when either is subsidized by tax dollars. At that point, politicians get to decide how to spend tax money which inevitably involves social engineering and “influence.”
You got that right. Paying a doctor $9 cash for an xray sure beats the $250 bill through insurance. Employer insurance just killed everything that was reasonbable about doctor’s visits. Everybody got greedy, and now no one can afford anything. Cash doctors, though, are coming back in style, the doctors are getting sick of the paperwork and hassle of trying to get paid. But outlawing stuff just sticks in my craw. People are too stupid to understand the underlying problems, ain’t no hope for ‘em.
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