Private business and health insurance

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Anonymous wrote:Insurance companies should operate across state lines. Increase market size. Will reduce costs. Only thing about trump I agree with. In addition to term limits

I don't think it's going to be easy to take control out of the hands of states.

It's been done before, credit card companies, Delaware business registrations, lots of ways to skirt states.

The Federal govt, especially under Trump, is NOT interested in regulating the healthcare industry, nor do the predominately unhealthy, low income red states want the control wrested out of their hands. Just think about the backlash by the red states when the Feds implemented No Child Left Behind, and how they backed Common Core. Which states were the ones that pulled out of CC? The ones where the people of the state were the least healithiest, and least educated. Which ones were early adopters? The ones where the state governments wanted to implement some for of universal healthcare and have higher median income.

Yet another way in which the country becomes more and more polarized. Those who can escape red states go to where there is better healthcare, better education, and better opportunities, which is in the blue states.

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11:29, you must be extremely ill-informed. That has not been the internal U.S. migration pattern for many years now.

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Anonymous wrote:11:29, you must be extremely ill-informed. That has not been the internal U.S. migration pattern for many years now.

But is it people from blue states moving to red states, or red to red? Most people who leave blue states do so because of either high col or job transfers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Insurance companies should operate across state lines. Increase market size. Will reduce costs. Only thing about trump I agree with. In addition to term limits

I don't think it's going to be easy to take control out of the hands of states.

Banks can have either a state or a national charter. There is no reason why we could not have the same arrangement for insurance companies. We could begin with a national charter option for health insurance companies and allow them to sell health insurance nationwide subject to federal oversight and minimum mandates and free from the crazy quilt of state mandates.

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OP, single-payer will effectively kill a whole industry. The insurance industry isn't ready to die as evidenced by the aggressive lobbying to pass ACA. It's an awful unbeatable system...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:11:29, you must be extremely ill-informed. That has not been the internal U.S. migration pattern for many years now.

But is it people from blue states moving to red states, or red to red? Most people who leave blue states do so because of either high col or job transfers.

In some cases there's red to red migration but in many other cases red to blue is absolutely still true. Large numbers of people are still leaving Idaho and Wyoming to go to California and Washington State.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:11:29, you must be extremely ill-informed. That has not been the internal U.S. migration pattern for many years now.

But is it people from blue states moving to red states, or red to red? Most people who leave blue states do so because of either high col or job transfers.

In some cases there's red to red migration but in many other cases red to blue is absolutely still true. Large numbers of people are still leaving Idaho and Wyoming to go to California and Washington State.

Even if people move from blue states to red states, most move to urban areas which are typically more liberal.

The areas with the best healthcare/hospitals are typically liberal, and 9 out 10 are in blue states.

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