-PJ
“And a market wouldn’t emerge to service these people?”
No. Business exist to make money. That is why it never existed before. Few people could ever afford what it would cost.
People on our side have a bizarre idea that the market is some magical wish-filling machine like the left sees the state as.
When has any insurance company ever voluntarily offered to cover pre-existing conditions? It's economically suicidal, unless the Government is forcing healthy people to buy insurance. Otherwise, no one will buy insurance until they get catastrophically sick.