(02-05-2019, 01:26 AM)jj82284 Wrote:

(02-04-2019, 09:55 PM)mikesez Wrote: You're saying that the government itself is the main barrier to entry in nearly all cases? I was making a point about big business in general. would you like to discuss whether or not I am right, with regard to banks, phone companies, airlines, and railroads, or would you like to confine the discussion to healthcare?

Pretty much.  That's why big business LOVES big government.  In the case of healthcare how many billionaires and hedge funds have been launching insurance start ups since we just passed 2k pages of regulations in the ACA?

Say you're right.
Suppose we agree that
1) there are not enough competing players in health insurance right now (Aetna, Blue, Cigna, Humana, UHC - 5 players is not enough?)
2) more competition in health insurance is all we need
3) we had more competition before the ACA
4) ACA regulations are reducing the number of competitive players in health insurance.

None of these things are actually in evidence, but leave that aside.

We would still have at least two ways to address that. (A) repeal the regulations, (B) break up the big players in an antitrust process.

(A) leaves us wondering if people would be, as they were before, left out in the cold with pre-existing conditions and lifetime caps.

(B) leaves us with no concerns about patient wellbeing.

We should focus on B, right?

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