Insurance companies won't insure old people, people who have pre-existing conditions and in some cases even people with insurance who become sick. In fact, if you're not double or triple covered and you require medical care, it's increasingly likely you'll be dissatisfied with your medical insurance policy.
The notion that left to its own devices the unfettered, free market would somehow solve this is ideological fantasy. It's blue skies, healthy forests, drill baby drill, tax cuts pay for themselves, Frank Luntz/Art Laffer garbage.
Our system costs double (almost triple the UK's) what others are paying around the world, leaves fifty million uninsured and produces mediocre results.
The system stifles our cost competitiveness, burdens taxpayers, industry and consumers, increases bankruptcy rates, promotes fear and anxiety and is responsible for tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths every year.
We should have dumped this turd fifty years ago.
It's about time we did something about it.
