If insurance companies were just making a profit that'd be fine, but they are ( literally ) making a killing. Insurance is a significant part of medical costs, just ask any doctor what his insurance overhead is, and ask how many hours a week he has to work just to cover that. One of the major ways an insurance company makes profits is denial of service to paying customers, nice.
My personal belief is that if the government is going to require us to have it ( being anything really ) then the government needs to be the provider. It would negate any conflict of interests. Otherwise you will get the gov't passing bills that charge you for not buying a private industry's product. Eventually it would have you buying a specific company's product, one with a no-bid gov't contract ya know
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