Because now the push is going to be for a full on single payer system when the current monstrosity crashes and burns.
What New York did wasn't a voluntary spreading of the risk, as what is expected to occur in an ordinary free market insurance scenario, but an involuntary redistribution of wealth, i.e., full-on Socialism.
New York also became one of the few states that require insurers within each region of the state to charge the same rates for the same benefits, regardless of whether people are old or young, male or female, smokers or nonsmokers, high risk or low risk.
...thereby removing any incentives to remain healthy!
“You have a mandate that’s accessible in theory, but not in practice, because it’s too expensive,” said Mark P. Scherzer, a consumer lawyer and counsel to New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage, an advocacy group. “What you get left clinging to the life raft is the population that tends to have pretty high health needs.”
Mr. Scherzer clearly never studied basic economics or accounting.
Has anyone, anywhere ever been able to find ONE example of where any type of Obamacare actually worked?
Premiums for individual and small group policies have risen so high that state officials and patients' advocates say that New York's extensive insurance safety net for people like Ms. Welles is falling apart.The point is, the rich leftist elite "meritocracy" (they were born and inherited fortures, or married into money like Ter-ray-zah) wants everyone out of the quality healthcare channel and just die already -- and Obamacare was born.