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Trumpcare Flopped
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RE: Trumpcare Flopped
Conservatives truly believe that letting companies compete freely will lead to the best possible system no matter what is being sold. It's this blind faith in the "free market" that is the problem and you can't argue with blind faith. It's like arguing religion with these folks. 

Insurance is not like other products and they seem to dumb to know this. They think selling insurance is like selling potato chips.  

Here are a few differences for any conservative reading this:

• Insurance a product where the seller qualifies the buyer. Show up with $30K in cash and they will sell you that car no questions asked. Show up with $30K and the insurance company may just tell you they won't sell you the product at any cost depending on your history. What happens here to supply and demand?
• Those who most need health insurance will be the first to be excluded from the entire market. Does this sound like any product you can think of? 

None of this is the insurance companies fault! It is a systemic issue that cannot be solved by Free markets. Insurance works quite well to charge appropriate premiums for most property and casualty risks but health care is different. It’s more like flood insurance which is plagued by adverse selection. If you want to build your house in a flood plane, no one can sell you flood insurance. If you don't like that, move to a safer area. However, if you are old or have contracted an illness... you can't move to another body. Adverse selection works to keep sick people from getting health insurance just like it works to keep flood insurance unavailable. It’s a well known and studied type of market failure. The solution to this problem is... Universal health insurance. 


Obama Care has given Americans a taste of a semi rational system and now that they have been given a taste they are more susceptible to understanding the truth about health insurance instead of buying into the conservative lie that the free market will solve all problems.

I think that the Dems should be campaigning heavily in conservative strongholds because many of those people will literally die under an unregulated insurance market and they are finally starting to see that first hand. Remind them of that over and over and over and see if they still want to vote for a Republican faith based economic system when their life is on the line.
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Trumpcare Flopped - by Minimalist - April 4, 2017 at 2:12 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Jackalope - April 4, 2017 at 7:32 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Sal - April 4, 2017 at 7:44 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Jackalope - April 4, 2017 at 7:53 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Tiberius - April 4, 2017 at 9:54 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Jackalope - April 4, 2017 at 9:57 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Minimalist - April 4, 2017 at 11:39 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by popeyespappy - April 4, 2017 at 12:06 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Tiberius - April 4, 2017 at 10:04 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Jackalope - April 4, 2017 at 10:14 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Tiberius - April 4, 2017 at 10:29 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Jackalope - April 4, 2017 at 10:55 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Tiberius - April 4, 2017 at 11:04 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Jackalope - April 4, 2017 at 11:17 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by dyresand - April 5, 2017 at 9:43 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Minimalist - April 5, 2017 at 9:46 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by vorlon13 - April 5, 2017 at 9:50 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Minimalist - April 5, 2017 at 9:54 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by vorlon13 - April 5, 2017 at 9:58 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Minimalist - April 5, 2017 at 10:02 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by vorlon13 - April 5, 2017 at 10:06 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Minimalist - April 5, 2017 at 10:17 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Autumnlicious - April 6, 2017 at 12:07 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Minimalist - April 6, 2017 at 1:23 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by vorlon13 - April 6, 2017 at 11:03 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Pat Mustard - April 6, 2017 at 11:26 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Jackalope - April 6, 2017 at 2:19 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Aroura - April 6, 2017 at 2:49 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by vorlon13 - April 6, 2017 at 6:03 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Minimalist - April 6, 2017 at 11:35 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Crunchy - April 6, 2017 at 4:30 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Minimalist - April 6, 2017 at 5:27 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by vorlon13 - April 7, 2017 at 4:00 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Tiberius - April 8, 2017 at 9:39 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Minimalist - April 7, 2017 at 4:03 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by vorlon13 - April 7, 2017 at 4:08 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Minimalist - April 7, 2017 at 5:40 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by vorlon13 - April 7, 2017 at 6:21 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Aroura - April 7, 2017 at 9:34 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Pat Mustard - April 8, 2017 at 5:48 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Minimalist - April 7, 2017 at 9:10 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by vorlon13 - April 8, 2017 at 9:43 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Tiberius - April 8, 2017 at 9:47 am
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Crunchy - April 8, 2017 at 12:32 pm
RE: Trumpcare Flopped - by Minimalist - April 28, 2017 at 7:36 pm

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