Comment Re:So what you're saying... (Score 1) 66
I'm sorry that you can't be bothered to look into the facts of the situation.
You're a liar.
You should start by paying attention to the congress people who are owned by insurance companies
You're a liar, in implying that this somehow argues against anything I wrote. If you had read my other comments, you may have been able to make yourself look a little less foolish, as I clearly wrote that insurance companies are a great example of crony capitalism.
How exactly can you claim that the insurance industry was willing to sit by idly and be driven to the bring by regulations
You're a liar. I never claimed that. You said the "situation[] [was] created not in response to excess regulation, but rather in response to the general absence of regulation." But no, in fact, the health insurance situation was created by excess regulation. Health insurers didn't "own Congress" like it does now in 1973 when Ted Kennedy and Richard Nixon started forcing us into HMOs, and they certainly didn't "own Congress" when it passed the Public Health Service Act in 1944.
There was never a time, in my lifetime and longer, that government didn't massively control the health insurance business. To say that there is some response to "general absence of regulation" is just lying.
Wait a minute. First of all, I thought you liked states being able to regulate commerce within their own borders?
... because you're stupid? I've never said anything like that. Ever. I said that if it is going to be regulated, the Constitution requires it be the states who do so, as opposed to the federal government. That doesn't mean I am in favor of states doing so.
Why are you suddenly against it and looking to allow the federal government to dictate it instead?
You're a liar. Nothing I said is in favor of federal government regulation of commerce.
In fact, you are one of many people who have bitched repeatedly about "federal regulation" on health care, without providing even a single example of a federal regulation that influenced anything before the giant handout to the insurance industry that was signed into law by President Obama in 2010.
I just gave example laws that do this. A specific regulation from those laws could include the federal employer mandates to provide insurance, a mandate which -- apart from being unconstitutional -- increases the cost of health insurance by reducing competition and portability, not to mention reduces job mobility etc.
This is indisputable, which is why you -- while expressing disagreement -- don't even pretend to try to provide an argument against it.