Do you believe the problem with national health care is that
 it's one size fits all?

 The health care exchanges, esp those set up by states, provide
 all the local adjustments you need. In the real world a pregnant
 woman, a patient with cancer, an athlete with a broken leg, or
 a worker with a work related injury, doesn't rationally expect
 to need different treatment for the same condition depending on
 where he lives.

 Since the states actually set the detailed rules on what's
 covered, with little from the feds even now, they can include
 special coverage for snake bites in areas with large swamps, and
 for getting hit in the head by an Asian Carp, along the
 Mississippi.

 However, the real threat is the republican insistance on being
 allowed to sell insurance across state lines. See, it's already
 legal to sell insurance across state lines, what is not legal is
 to sell policies that don't meet the standards of the state
 where it's being sold.

 What the republicans want is to be allowed to sell cut rate
 insurance, that covers very little, very poorly, and maybe isn't
 sufficiently underwritten to actually pay at all if there is a
 large number of claims. Like a flu pandemic, maybe?

 On top of that, the republicans are trying to override the
 state's right to regulate their own market. Damn, talking out of
 both sides of their mouths on steroids.


BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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