re: #29 BryanS

Right…their closing assumes nobody can figure out any other way to replace that 20%. I would assume, as was the case in Louisiana where they learned the hard way it was foolish to close them, that states will find a way to fund them. What about the idea I suggested for states to impose a tax on insurance companies operating in their boundaries to make up that gap? It’s not as if funneling money through the federal level is the only way to pay for things.

Do you think that raising a tax on one of the most well-funded and protected lobbying interests in the nation is even remotely likely?