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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
No your wrong. All the State would be limiting is the minimal coverage package that is allowed to be sold. Like right now there would be many optional packages within the market place. If it doesn't already exist the State or a non profit could set up a web site that provided information on the different insurance plans avaliable, to help citizens make healthy choices.
What the State wouldn't do is force its citizens to buy something they don't want. I find it strange that so many people who support assisted suicide reject folks making their own health insurance choices.
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If the state describes what needs to be in a minimal coverage package, then the state is
de facto establishing a mandate.
Unless you're arguing that people need not buy any insurance at all, but that if they do, the state dictates the minimum that can be sold. But that's just incoherent. What use is it to set minimum coverage rules if people don't need to be covered?
As for citizens shopping for all their healthcare needs online in an a la carte manner, as if they were building a Macbook on Apple's website... well, I don't have the strength to go through this again.