Quote:1) You assume the state government is the only barrier to entry. It may simply not make financial sense to build a hospital. There may be no demand for one. 

 

2) Not sure why you wouldn't want the oversight of a physician. They are your primary healthcare provider. 

 

3) There is a good reason they don't sell across state lines. Insurers would cherry pick where they provided business, potentially to the states with the healthiest populations. This would create a race to the bottom as insurers would get to choose both their regulator and their risk pool. 

 

Oversight of a physician sounds GREAT!!!  But then when you look closer, when you mandate that a service has to be provided by the guy with 500k in student loans that went to school for 7 years before doing 5 years of residency you understand why it exponentially increases the cost of getting a routine prescription updated. 

 

Also the greatest mitigating factor for cost is consumer choice.  The current system allows certain state markets to have a single option for service.  That's the death nil for consumers.  Allowing competition across state lines increases the available competition and thus the quality of the product for the consumer.  If you want to have common sense basic regulations then that's fine, but creating 50 artificial monopolies isn't going to help anyone. 

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