re: #508 austin_blue

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They can’t be “influenced”. They can only be regulated. And you must have strong enforcement assets and funding behind the regulation. Otherwise it’s Enrons and Madoffs all over the place.

A “free market” is chaos without regulation. Regulation is chaos with the big stick.

They can be influenced through competition. And I’m not against regulation in proper amounts. My fear is that the “public option” is a Fabian strategy to gradually force private companies out the insurance business and consolidate government control over health care. If the public option were removed and Obamacare rendered a regulation bill, my opposition to it would greatly drop.