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Typical liberal socialist thinking.
The way you encourage young and healthy people to buy insurance premiums and thus help to improve the actuary tables is to not guarantee healthcare services to people who could otherwise pay for a premium but chose not to. The incentive is you only get what you pay for. That way when they show up at a hospital or doctor's office.... Sorry, you aren't covered, you chose to opt out. So either show us cash, or good bye! Same way we do with car insurance, home owners insurance etc. Don't want to cover your car and you are in an accident, nobody comes in and fixes your car. There is no "fundamental right" to car insurance---or to a car. Well, at least not yet, but I'm sure you socialists will add that too.
I see, and if you are poor, or have a history of cancer and the premiums are $10k/month, you're just SOL, sucks to be you. And if that young person gets in an accident and breaks 4 bones, concussion, etc. what happens when the ambulance takes them to the ER? They get turned away or what?
So the problem starts with you all claiming healthcare is a human right. Where in the constitution does it say that? I agree that as a society we may be well served to help cover people who cannot work, the old, the handicapped. But for everyone else, they need to pay, and pay MORE for what is otherwise being doled out by taxpayers and/or other people who are doing the right thing.
I see, so maybe fine people who choose to not get insurance, but who are covered by the ER guarantee of service? Something like that?
Do that, and then you begin to fix healthcare. Make people responsible and accountable. If more people looked at healthcare like something as important as owning a new SUV, or a $1000 smart phone, and not soemthing someone else is supposed to pay for, then we get back to making this system work.
Problem with you socialists is you believe in giving too many people a free ride. Offer that enough and then suddenly people stop feeling like they are responsible for their own lives--"someone else" will bail them out, and then our ER waiting rooms become filled with moochers and our national borders swarmed by newcomers. Why not, "everything is free". And the obvious answer is that NOTHING IS FREE---somebody has to pay for it. You offer this "free stuff" to get votes/power. At least be honest about why you do it.
You've got some theories, and all that's missing is someone putting them into a plan, so we can see how they actually work in something like 20% of our economy. Maybe after a decade post-ACA the GOP could start working on this plan.....