Make Health Insurance Great Again With National Marketplace
Freeing them and new players to offer medical coverage nationwide would be an important and welcome way to make health insurance great again. Why can't the Geico Gecko sell health insurance from coast to coast? Congress should use the Constitution's Interstate Commerce Clause to terminate these officials' veto power over which health insurers can enter their territories. Also, state-level insurance commissioners behave like border guards, deciding which insurers can and cannot enter their jurisdictions. recently predicted, "State insurance commissioners won't like it, because it decreases their power when insurers can relocate."
And she has a point: a 2015 study published in the journal BMC Health Services Research found that switching to a single-payer health care system would save the U.S. health care system an estimated $375 billion in insurance-related paperwork each year. Experts argue that eliminating excessive administrative complexities could save the U.S. health care system about $183 billion annually. health insurance is complicated business — and those complications often come at a cost to patients. This is the business model of health insurance companies: create unnecessary complexity to fool vulnerable people into paying more. That's why letters like this one, shared on Twitter by journalist Libby Watson, seem counterproductive — and unnecessarily expensive for patients.
collected by :Lucy William
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