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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
We're both trying to find a way to use competition to keep prices down. You have in mind that most people will have their own insurance, and will either will make their own choices to drive prices down, or will select insurance providers that do so. I have in mind that people are going to be in something like an HMO, only with a government-required minimum standard of coverage, and that the competition among providers to get that business will keep prices down. I don't like your mechanism for some of the same reasons that led to wonk owing this ER doctor $5000. But that's off the cuff.
And theren't aren't many trolls hereabouts lately, but Hank et al. like to call people trolls. They think it's funny.
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So people will get to choose their HMOs but the government will pay for it? Kind of like a school voucher. Or will the HMOs bid for government contracts?
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