A Better Approach

• You could fix 90 percent of the problems with health insurance by ending the federal law allowing states to ban health insurance sales across state lines.
• Government-provided health care isn't a competitor; it's a monopoly product paid for by the taxpayer.
• in a free market, such an [poor performing] insurance company couldn't stay in business. Other insurance companies would scream from the rooftops about their competitor's shoddy business practices, and customers would leave in droves.
• You want to protect consumers? Do it the same way we protect consumers of dry cleaning, hamburgers and electricians: Give them the power to tell their insurance companies, "I'm taking my business elsewhere."
• The vast majority of "pre-existing" conditions that currently exist in a cramped, limited, heavily regulated insurance market would be "covered" conditions under a free market in health insurance.