All I see are those state rules becoming mandatory in all regions. Every insurer will have to provide for every problem imaginable. They won’t be able to say our plan won’t cover abortion or drug addiction so you can have a lower rate, because the states will require that everything be covered. That means that the cost of health care will increase for everyone because the cost to insure will be going up to cover all these things.
I keep hearing that the system is broken. But it seems to work better than any other system in the world. If there is a better system working somewhere else, let’s study it. If a better system does not exist elsewhere, why keep trying to mess with this one?
By what standards are you judging it to be better than all other healthcare systems?
The free market system doesn’t always work so well for sick people. Insurance companies compete to sell to healthy people and exclude sick people.
In a real free market system, all customers would be equally desirable if you are selling a product, yes?
That's supposed to be how the "republic" was supposed to work right here at home. Many states competing with different ideas, different approaches.
If California got some state healthcare or environmental program right, then people could moe there and enjoy it, or other states could adopt it.
Now we have this centralized predeliction to instantiate a one-size-fits-all policy from DC, the last people to have a clue on how to do anything.