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'Blue-Dogging' Health Care

I find it amazing that in a financial column there is partisan prose concerning how much govern involvment there should be in mandating health insurance for all. The basic objective of this so called "reform" is to adulterate the free market- otherwise you would not have to "mandate" it and have it conscripted into law.

In the free market there are policies that are one tenth the cost of your average Cobra or group insurance - 1/10! That is with one simple fact you have a 10000 deductable. Here (like a 2000 deductable in auto) you have a free market - take insurance against what you cannot afford. Look at the vision market unbelievable drop in fancy eye doctors - go to Walmart for glasses.
But in some states you are forced at tax time to disclose and be penalized if you are being assessed in a free market Under the new government programs that wishes to include societies outlying costs as people fly in from around the world and throw their passport in the trash can.

This national effort is using the insurance scheme to back people into socialized medicine. I thought people distrust politicians - these creators of the bill will not be subject to this risk pool of a "ship of fools". Everything will be political - who you know what hospitals contribute to whose campaign etc.
It couldn't get more political when viagra and sex change operations are reimbursed and hearing aids are not.

It is classic since we have a politicians that sends their kids to private schools and works against charter school funding.

What is so hard about showing the consequences of this reform by pointing to foreign countries that already have done this? What are their issues and why the rush?