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To: peyton randolph; Dilbert San Diego
If you just repeal obamacare, without somehow providing a rewind to 2008, you really screw the millions of people who lost their plans when Obamacare launched. All those people then have to go back and find new insurers, and when you do that you can't get coverage for preexisting conditions.

Also, Medicare and Medicaid are massive government distortions on the market, so don't pretend that it is some sort of free or private market when the two largest entities involved are run by the government. One of teh main reasons healthcare was so expensive was private insurers and cash payers subsidize the low medicare/medicaid fees by paying higher fees.

32 posted on 11/01/2015 10:44:35 AM PST by Wayne07
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To: MrShoop
Medicare and Medicaid are massive government distortions on the market, so don't pretend that it is some sort of free or private market when the two largest entities involved are run by the government.

Don't put words in my mouth. I'm not pretending government programs are free or private market. I'm not endorsing Medicare or Medicaid simply by acknowledging they exist.

The fact remains that tens of millions will still have government health insurance through Medicare and Medicaid if Obamacare was repealed. You're acting as if it is the end of the world as we know it if Obamacare is repealed rather than replaced with some other socialized medicine.


you can't get coverage for preexisting conditions.

If someone is uninsurable because of a preexisting condition after the repeal of Obamacare, why use the force of government to redistribute wealth to cover the condition? The fact that coverage was lost because of Obamacare doesn't justify raping other taxpayers to subsidize healthcare for those who can't get coverage in the marketplace.

If anything, it seems like you're the one who is anti-free market and just loves to have Uncle Sugar loot producers to subsidize healthcare.

37 posted on 11/01/2015 11:15:27 AM PST by peyton randolph (I am not a number. I am a free man.)
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