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26808 Re: Donald Duck and Mike Dense are pushing health accounts today
   ...why don't we have an experiment with all federal employees putting...
ribit   FFFT3   02 Nov 2016
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zzstar   FFFT3   02 Nov 2016
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Re: Donald Duck and Mike Dense are pushing health accounts today

By: oldCADuser in FFFT3
Wed, 02 Nov 16 1:55 AM
Msg. 26797 of 65535
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On the subject of selling insurance across state lines, there are no federal laws that would have to be changed since there are NO restrictions at the federal level. It's up to the states, not Washington, but then that's where the problem is, it's already been tried and the insurance companies wanted no part of it. The real irony is that the ONLY current insurance program that operates across ALL the state lines is Medicare, which is as close to a 'single payer' system that we have in America today. So if you think that delivering health insurance coverage across state lines is the solution, then lets start by allowing anyone and everyone to opt into Medicare, or what Bernie Sanders called Medicare Part 'E', where the 'E' stood for 'Everyone'. This would be what has been called a 'public option' which is what the Dems and Obama wanted right from the beginning. So the solution to all of this was there for the asking, but the Repubs killed it.

Some thoughts on the 'state line' issue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/upshot/the-problem-with-gop-plans-to-sell-health-insurance-across-state-lines.html




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