Obamacare enrollees having trouble finding specialists

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One of the reasons Obamacare may be successful in the long run is its ability to kill sick people more efficiently. Republicans tried to avoid this outcome, but alas. People begged for government insurance and rationing.

Godspeed

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I'm pretty sure the Republican plan - do nothing - was much more effective at killing sick people. I'm also shocked that there is a serious attempt to dispute this.

In order to - do nothing - the legislature must actively persecute private individuals who are trying to solve the problem. No one is being persecuted for solving our healthcare problems, nor have Republicans proposed any such legislation.

The Republican view is not difficult to decipher. If people buy relatively unrestricted healthcare insurance in marketplaces that are free from state-sanctioned monopoly, Americans can tailor their consumptive behavior to buy what they need. The possible exception is some kinds of catastrophic insurance, which cannot be properly priced or administrated by markets.

For reasons no one can gather, Democrats continue to push forward with their inequitable comprehensive health insurance, which is little more than a thinly disguised attempt to redistribute wealth according to arcane moral principles no one can understand. A 50 year old man must by contraceptives for a 20 year old girl. A 20 year old man must cover prostate surgery for a 55 year old man. A 25 year old woman is buying mammograms for a 55 year old woman.

It makes no sense. It has virtually no support in either party, yet this is the bill that Democrats held their noses and passed. Predictably, they were hammered mercilessly in the 2010 midterms for good reason.

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And on a "free market" system, people die because they can't afford health insurance. But oh my, paying for someone else is so much worse than letting said someone die!

No one has proposed repealing Medicaid or Medicare, unless they a pitching a new healthcare entitlement.

Your remarks aren't even tangential to the issue. Costs are out of control because our system has virtually no market forces. Government and private companies are basically tag-teaming the American people to see how much money they can squeeze from their pockets before they break.

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Healthcare insurance market wouldn't be free, no matter what Washington do.

There isn't enough healthcare insurance providers to create a true free market. It's an oligarchy, which will plot and to secret deals with each other to ramp up the prices.

Has anyone demanded perfect competition in an unrestricted marketplace? In many states, health insurers have government-sanctioned monopolies or duopolies. Oligopoly would be an improvement.

Furthermore, the economics of insurance require oligopolies in some ways. Small companies cannot effectively bargain or absorb risk. Oligopolies can, but they have to be well-regulated. The regulations are in place (perhaps too many), but the government is restricting access to competition between companies.