re: #291 Dark_Falcon

A. Those can be designed. If Obama can get the insurance industry to come around on his ideas, Republicans closer to the industry ought to be able to work with them to design such plans. Such plans would require close federal oversight, so some regulatory apparatus would still be needed.

Obama didn’t get them to come around on his ideas. They fought him tooth and nail with tons of money in advertising and lobbying. How is it an open market if politicians design and regulate the plans?

Why not just go single payer? What is the use in having for-profit insurance? The whole idea of capitalism and for-profit business is to innovate. How do you innovate insurance?