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2019-08-04 Economy

Manhattan Institute - Private Health Insurance Saves Americans Money

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-04 02:58|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Amazing what free markets and competition can do. Someone copy the chamber of communism and the bidness roundtable on that memo...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-04 07:50|| 2019-08-04 07:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Regulations are often there to decrease competition especially from new entrants.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-08-04 08:21|| 2019-08-04 08:21|| Front Page Top

#3 If they would repeal McCarran Ferguson, insurance companies could compete across state lines and with a larger pool premiums would go down

Insurance companies now have to be set up by state with the corresponding smaller pools

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-08-04 14:08|| 2019-08-04 14:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Insurance companies have to negotiate care networks market by market. Being able to operate over state lines does not matter.

The only exception is Medicare, which pays 20 cents on the dollar, and private insurers and their clients and customers pay the rest.

Posted by Regular joe 2019-08-04 15:19|| 2019-08-04 15:19|| Front Page Top

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