Do you believe the problem with national health care is that   
    it's one size fits all?   
      
    The health care exchanges, esp those set up by states, provide   
    all the local adjustments you need. In the real world a pregnant   
    woman, a patient with cancer, an athlete with a broken leg, or   
    a worker with a work related injury, doesn't rationally expect   
    to need different treatment for the same condition depending on   
    where he lives.   
      
    Since the states actually set the detailed rules on what's   
    covered, with little from the feds even now, they can include   
    special coverage for snake bites in areas with large swamps, and   
    for getting hit in the head by an Asian Carp, along the   
    Mississippi.   
      
    However, the real threat is the republican insistance on being   
    allowed to sell insurance across state lines. See, it's already   
    legal to sell insurance across state lines, what is not legal is   
    to sell policies that don't meet the standards of the state   
    where it's being sold.   
      
    What the republicans want is to be allowed to sell cut rate   
    insurance, that covers very little, very poorly, and maybe isn't   
    sufficiently underwritten to actually pay at all if there is a   
    large number of claims. Like a flu pandemic, maybe?   
      
    On top of that, the republicans are trying to override the   
    state's right to regulate their own market. Damn, talking out of   
    both sides of their mouths on steroids.   
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
   ... We need a republican party that is more than a going out of business sale.   
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