Sensible Health Care Plan

[DamnYankee]

What regulations are preventing these insurance companies from operating in all 50 states?

Unless you can give that information, you cannot possibly declare that they are all antiquated.

Is this a new debate rule that you have discovered? Can you link to a source that describes it in detail? Unless you can give that information, you cannot possibly declare that as a rule.

 

[DamnYankee]

Zing!

 

[WinterBorn]

Zing!

More like moronic.

The point is that you are calling the rules antiquated, and yet there is no evidence that the rules are antiquated.

Many insurance companies cannot operate in certain states because there are requirements for a certain amount in assets, or certain rules applying to whether they can drop people from coverage ect.

Simply because you claim the regulations are antiquated does not make them antiquated.

 

[WinterBorn]

Is this a new debate rule that you have discovered? Can you link to a source that describes it in detail? Unless you can give that information, you cannot possibly declare that as a rule.

You claim the regulations are antiquated. I simply pointed out that unless you can detail the regulations, you cannot make that claim.

Nothing new in that at all.

 

[DamnYankee]

Obviously, since nearly everyone agrees the current system should be modernized, most are.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Most liberals think so, and of course they are wrong.

That's ironic when you consider I haven't seen a conservative yet who had any use for the Bill of Rights.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

As the woman pointed out, there are 1500 insurance companies willing to do business in the US, and they only thing holding them back from doing so in all 50 states are antiquated government regulations. The only monopoly here is the government.

That's not entirely correct. Most of those 1500 you mention are whlly owned subsidiaries of companies like Blue Cross and Kaiser.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

cmon man, the thing is 200 years old. back then they wouldnt even have let you vote.

and you call it antiquated!

 

[Mott the Hoople]

um, no we can't. If anything, the constitution has already been stretched beyond its usefulness BECAUSE people think it's outdated.

tell us, would you like to scrap the constitution?

Name one person besides Moe here who thinks it's outdated?

 

[DamnYankee]

That's not entirely correct. Most of those 1500 you mention are whlly owned subsidiaries of companies like Blue Cross and Kaiser.

You're probably right. I didn't research the woman's claim. How many independent companies are there in the US?

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Is this a new debate rule that you have discovered? Can you link to a source that describes it in detail? Unless you can give that information, you cannot possibly declare that as a rule.

Are you saying that what your saying is correct and you don't have to back it up with evidence or facts? That we have to accept what you say at face value as the truth?

Not gonna happen! LOL

 

[Mott the Hoople]

You're probably right. I didn't research the woman's claim. How many independent companies are there in the US?

at least 2 or 3, maybe more.

 

[DamnYankee]

That's ironic when you consider I haven't seen a conservative yet who had any use for the Bill of Rights.

I find them to be superfluous myself. That is, if you understand the concept that we tell the government what it can do, not it tell us what we can't do.

 

[DamnYankee]

at least 2 or 3, maybe more.

It sounds like you did exhaustive research to make that statement.

 

[DamnYankee]

Are you saying that what your saying is correct and you don't have to back it up with evidence or facts? That we have to accept what you say at face value as the truth?

Not gonna happen! LOL

Hey dude, stand down! I'm the decider here. LOL

 

[WinterBorn]

Obviously, since nearly everyone agrees the current system should be modernized, most are.

Since we all agree that the system needs to be updated, all of the regulations that prevent insurance companies from operating in all 50 states are antiquated?

 

[DamnYankee]

Since we all agree that the system needs to be updated, all of the regulations that prevent insurance companies from operating in all 50 states are antiquated?

Caricature.

 

[WinterBorn]

Caricature.

Not at all.

 

[ib1yysguy]

Gee that didn't happen with bank deregulation. Although many large banks bought up smaller ones, at the same time folks started up new banks.

I think that your trying to equate this with an industry that has huge start-up costs, like the automobile industry. In that type of industry new companies just don't start up from scratch. But in an industry that is relatively easy to start up the free market stem works very well.

Are you fucking kidding? About 90 percent of all the loans in this country are made now by about four different banking institutions.

 

[ib1yysguy]

It sounds like you did exhaustive research to make that statement.

There are six or seven. I've heard both numers. The point is it's completely retarded to say there are 1500 independent ones because they aren't independent at all.