Diogenes
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Health care is a commodity, like food, clothing and shelter. As with those, buy it or receive it as charity. I would rather subsidize unpaid ER use via higher costs than impose coercion on Americans. In other words, I would prefer the pre-ACA status quo ante to the ACA. If that's not politically feasible then go all the way to single payer. ACA is a coercive, incoherent mishmash that destroys freedom while subsidizing both government and the insurance/drug complex.eace
Agreed except for the endorsement of single payer, which would give all of us the poor quality of health care now available only on Indian reservations. There are changes we could make to the status quo ante which would improve the system without the heavy hand of government: allow policy purchase across state lines (like auto insurance); make premium payments by individuals tax deductible for the individual; allow formation of sponsor groups other than employers, like the Elks or Kiwanis. The heavy hand of bureaucratic regulation never works out well for the patients.