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Originally Posted by Azure
People have a problem affording health care coverage in the US. That is a known problem. So wouldn't it help if the first thing you did was try to bring down those costs by creating more competition, by implementing tort reform, by introducing regulation that keeps insurance companies from screwing over people they agreed to cover, and SHOULD be covering instead of just using government taxpayer funded money to create the illusion that none of those problems exist because the person directly by the health care isn't paying as much?.
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"Competition" models don't work in health care because the object of health care is to ensure health across the board, not to reduce costs and maximize profit. Maximizing profits means less goes to care and more goes to shareholders. Profit should not be part of the health care equation. Moreover, competition assumes that consumers are well enough informed to know what they need and they don't, so they cannot shop intelligently.