Dear Sick People,

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-and now they know you'll pay that much.  The price isn't going to down if the ACA is repealed.  

Sure, sure, some cutrate company will provide a shittier service at a lower pricepoint, but looking at the above, is a shittier service what you need?  Personally, I don;t know that life and the maintenance thereof should be a for profit industry, but so long as it is we may as well approach the reality of it, rather than our best wishes for how it could be better within that context.

Return of free market and competition. Part of the problem is that we had limited companies to choose from and only one plan that would cover my wife's specialists physicians. Not much of a choice. Barring any hospitalization, it would have been less expensive to go with no insurance and pay out of pocket. I could buy cheap ass hospital only/catastrophic coverage but that would not satisfy the mandate.

You cannot use the problem to solve the issues it created. In this instance the free market caused a problem whereby a significant percentage of the population weren't able to access healthcare and most of those who could pay were not being provided for. The problem was that the free market imposes no obligation on participants providing a public good to provide it to all.

Instead of pining for the returning to the utopia (please reflect on the meaning of that word) of unregulated provision, you should be advocating for the introduction for a state owned and regulated monopoly provider, in healthcare the only model which will ever work.