Ann Coulter - libertarian? - "There shall be a free market in health insurance."

[jamesd at echeque.com (James A. Donald)]

On 3/2/2017 4:43 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> The "free market" is what is wrong with "health care" in the US.
> For-profit hospitals have to make money, so they charge outrageous
> prices.

Singapore has socialist health care and genuine free market health care. 
  Most people use the free market healthcare, and pay for it out of 
their own pockets (not quite their own pockets - out of mandatory 
savings accounts)

It is best healthcare system in the world.  The prices are fairly 
similar to the free market health care sectors in India and Thailand.

When government guarantees free healthcare for everyone, the hospitals 
get overrun by bums seeking a free bed and free meals, and by drug 
addicts seeking free drugs, as for example in Canada.  And then the 
government starts bumping off old people to make room.

The problem in America today is that lots of people get free healthcare, 
and these people go in by the same door, and see the same triage nurse 
as you do, so there is always a long queue of bums and drug addicts in 
front of you running up the cost of healthcare.

If you are not prepared to let bums and drug addicts drop dead, you wind 
up bumping off retirees.  Which is the Obamacare crisis. Ann Coulter 
cannot buy health insurance at any price, because bums and drug addicts 
are in front of her.

She can buy what Obama calls health insurance, but it does not cover 
cancer, broken legs, etc, and has extremely high deductibles, so is 
effectively not health insurance.  And that is the collapse of Obamacare.