Obamacare could cost one small business half of its profit

[Coachgns]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

Fed can only get involved when it crosses state lines. Health insurance cannot cross state lines.

IT CAN'T?
A person lives in New Jersey, and seeks cancer care in NYC because that is where the best medical care is - at ALoan Kettering. Or they are in S. Jersey & wish to get orthopedic care at the Rothmann Institute in Philadelphia. PA & NY are across state lines from New jersey.

Maybe living in the middle of TX you can't understand crossing State lines for care, but for a huge majority in this COuntry, a Metropolitan Area is much more significant than a State border.

[jimj]

Originally Posted by Coachgns

IT CAN'T?
A person lives in New Jersey, and seeks cancer care in NYC because that is where the best medical care is - at ALoan Kettering. Or they are in S. Jersey & wish to get orthopedic care at the Rothmann Institute in Philadelphia. PA & NY are across state lines from New jersey.

Maybe living in the middle of TX you can't understand crossing State lines for care, but for a huge majority in this COuntry, a Metropolitan Area is much more significant than a State border.

I think you misunderstand the statement. Insurance companies can't sell policies across state lines that's part of the problem right now and why a policy bought in say, NJ doesn't cost the same as the same policy purchased in other states (if it's even available in those other states).

Now if I were the conspiratorial sort I'd be thinking that the idea is to get people so ticked off at the insurance companies and rising costs that they demand the government nationalize healthcare so insurance companies would then be owned by the "state" and prices would be set by the "state". But they wouldn't do that, or would they?