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Trump’s America
WSJ ^ | 13 Feb 2016 | Charles Murray

Posted on 02/13/2016 6:06:05 AM PST by Theoria

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To: HarleyLady27
What Trump wants to do is do health care like Auto Insurance, if you can get better health care from a company in Texas, and you live in Idaho, then you will be able to cross state lines, which you can not do now, so the insurance people have to compete with better prices on policies...

1) what about the people who still can't afford it, and make too much to qualify for Medicaid? According to Trump's quote in the link you proved, he's promised "universal coverage. So how does Trump ensure that those people who cannot afford coverage are covered?

2) will it be like car insurance in terms of people being required to buy it? Like...an individual mandate?? Or will people be allowed not to carry health insurance if they don't want to? And if that is the case, how can he fulfill his promise of "universal coverage?"

3) if you're really talking about making it like auto insurance...I don't think you actually understand the issues.

The reason health insurance policies are not sold across state lines is because each state has its own coverage requirements. So, a policy sold in one state generally won't meet the coverage requirements in another, so a different policy must be written.

But in fact, states also have their own coverage requirements for auto insurance, so that you may have to change your car insurance coverage when moving to a different state. You may be able to buy your car insurance from the same company, bit the policy details may change. Which is exactly how it is with health coverage right now.

But to be able to sell the exact same health insurance coverage over state lines, you'd have to eliminate the right of each state to mandate certain minimum coverages. That's not even the case with car insurance right now.

61 posted on 02/13/2016 9:04:55 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

If that is the case then why am I allowed, living in Utah to get car insurance cheaper than in Utah?

He said he is going to make sure Medicare is fixed for those that need it...

You have to have faith in the man...I don’t know if your for Trump or not, but what he has said about job market and taxes and the middle east has come true...look at what he has said about Germany and over there...

If your not for Trump then go vote for someone else that you feel will be better suited for your needs, I like Trump and have supported him 100% from the day he announced, I have my own mind and when I have a question, I research it...I gave you my answers, you have to figure out your decisions on your own, it’s call freedom....


62 posted on 02/13/2016 9:10:28 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ("The Force Awakens"!!! TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP!!! 100%)
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To: RKBA Democrat

“I support Donald Trump because I prefer him to civil war.”
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You do realize that you have just “coined” a T-shirt slogan bonanza, don’t you???


63 posted on 02/14/2016 9:20:55 AM PST by Ozymandias Ghost
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To: Ozymandias Ghost

I hope so. I’d love someone to steal it.


64 posted on 02/14/2016 9:23:54 AM PST by RKBA Democrat ("Communism is islam without mohammed" Tommy Robinson)
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To: HarleyLady27
if that is the case then why am I allowed, living in Utah to get car insurance cheaper than in Utah? I think there is a typo in there somewhere.

If you have disclosed to your auto insurance company that your vehicle is now based in a new state, and that new state has higher minimum insurance requirements (minimum liability coverages, etc.) that are not met by your cheaper policy from another state, then you are not in compliance with the auto insurance law of your new state.

Now, it may be that your old policy actually does comply with the minimum requirements of your new state, in which case that issue is irrelevant, and you.just have a cheaper insurance company - state has nothing to do with it.

But health insurance requirements are far more complicated/intricate, and generally vary more from state to state. That's the only reason that health insurance policies generally don't cross state lines -because they are regulated at the state level. Because otherwise, there is absolutely nothing prohibiting a health insurance company from selling identical policies in different states.

So in sum, to make health insurance policies generally applicable across state lines (which a lot of the GOP candidates do support), the federal government would have to wipe out the right of states to set their own insurance requirements.

65 posted on 02/14/2016 9:33:05 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: sparklite2
Our vaunted liberty is now constrained by thousands of petty restrictions that touch almost anything we want to do,

So true! First industry targeted, then individuals. Standards were established, then tightened, then tightened again...and the invasion of individual privacy and property rights continues to get worse. Entire industries have been or are being bankrupted and others have moved their manufacturing offshore.

So which agency of all the overweening Federal Agencies is the absolute worst?

66 posted on 02/14/2016 9:56:19 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

That’s like asking which arm of an octopus is the most dangerous.


67 posted on 02/15/2016 9:40:38 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: sparklite2
One out shines the others.

They make up moving target emissions standards, and if it looks like they will be met, the make up some new ones. This is the mechanism by which they have closed coal-fired generating plants and virtually killed off the coal industry.

They declared that Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant, and that they thus can regulate CO2, right down to the air you breathe out.

They have declared dominion over "intermittent wetlands" (mudholes) and other small bodies of water, and can fine you for filling them in.

They waged war on hydraulic fracturing, a process yet to be shown to ruin groundwater, and attempted to prove it was evil. When they failed in their construction of test wells (the USGS wouldn't even sample the one, it was so bad), they promptly GAVE over a million acres of Wyoming, including the area where the test wells were located (and a few towns) to the Wind River Indian Tribe, effectively changing jurisdictions to Federal/Tribal of private property without so much as a 'by your leave'. The matter is in litigation because the Agency has no authority to give away part of a State and change its boundaries without Congressional action to that effect.

That's just a warmup, but everything produced in the US is subject to EPA regulations at some level, and the effect has been that entire industries are moving factories and jobs offshore.

Sad to say, but that isn't going to make America Great, ever.

68 posted on 02/15/2016 9:52:26 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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