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For good reasons, the question comes up over and over again here: If the guaranteed issue states have seen nothing but cost and failure why do so many of them want to see the feds go down the same route? Why don't they (my state included) just smarten up and return to a more free market system?
As discussed (and as hard is it is for others to believe), it doesn't work that way. These states are up to their eyeballs iin program costs and they can't wait for the feds to take it over and then they will just dump everything on to the feds and get out of it. Then they will declare victory for being pioneers.
Health care reform is all about cost shifting. Shifting costs to the insurance carriers, shifting costs to the feds, shifting costs to consumers. Very little going on in the way of cost saving. Practically nothing in fact. The program in my state is a complete failure. The goal of the month is to try to move as many people as possible off of it and on to medicaid to hold costs down. Man, that is some zippy plan.
Anyway don't expect the guaranteed issue states to sound the alarm. Most of them are run by pinkos who implemented the failed programs they have. However, that does not mean that the other states can't look at them and invite people to smarten up.
See attached link. Same crap in New Jersey. Maybe the agents there see it differently. That's fine. My point is only that in failed states the pinkos are more likely to want to go onward and upward to single payer rather than back to more free market. They destroy the free market and then use that as the rationale for single payer. This is how socilialism works in several industries.
NorthJersey.com: Health care reform's payoff
As discussed (and as hard is it is for others to believe), it doesn't work that way. These states are up to their eyeballs iin program costs and they can't wait for the feds to take it over and then they will just dump everything on to the feds and get out of it. Then they will declare victory for being pioneers.
Health care reform is all about cost shifting. Shifting costs to the insurance carriers, shifting costs to the feds, shifting costs to consumers. Very little going on in the way of cost saving. Practically nothing in fact. The program in my state is a complete failure. The goal of the month is to try to move as many people as possible off of it and on to medicaid to hold costs down. Man, that is some zippy plan.
Anyway don't expect the guaranteed issue states to sound the alarm. Most of them are run by pinkos who implemented the failed programs they have. However, that does not mean that the other states can't look at them and invite people to smarten up.
See attached link. Same crap in New Jersey. Maybe the agents there see it differently. That's fine. My point is only that in failed states the pinkos are more likely to want to go onward and upward to single payer rather than back to more free market. They destroy the free market and then use that as the rationale for single payer. This is how socilialism works in several industries.
NorthJersey.com: Health care reform's payoff