What to expect from ObamaCare’s replacement

wolfsgirl said:

Which means nothing in reference to your post. Unless the feds require companies to sell across state lines, they won't. Which means that selling across state lines is not some savior for the nations health insurance woes.

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The only way we could do that successfully is if we shift the regulatory burden from the state level to the federal level.

Absentglare said:

The only way we could do that successfully is if we shift the regulatory burden from the state level to the federal level.

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Which may require a constitutional amendment. At the least that means states rights would be infringed upon - which is something that most conservatives do not support.

imagep said:

Which may require a constitutional amendment. At the least that means states rights would be infringed upon - which is something that most conservatives do not support.

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It would be a policy position of taking power from the states and granting it to the federal government, something i would consider to be orthogonal to republican/conservative values.

I don't think that's a problem though, they can describe it as dishonestly as they please with little accountability since their constituents will often refuse to seriously consider competing narratives.

Regarding selling health insurance across state lines: That issue has been discussed at length on this forum in the past, and yet the idea still keeps coming up that, if only insurance could be sold across state lines, costs would go down due to competition.

The fact is that insurance companies can sell across state lines. The issue is regulation. Each state has its own set of regulations. If an insurance company in state A wants to sell in state B, then it has to comply with state B's regulations. It can't simply set up shop in the state with the most lax regulations and sell all over the country complying with that state's rules.

Here's an explanation of the issue