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**Bill-Watson** · 04-10-2009, 07:59 AM

Need more competition.

Introducing more government is not adding competition it is dictating to the existing competition, amongst other things:

THey should lower the barriers to entry into health insurance in every state in the union. These people making billions of dollars a year pushing paper and the reason they getting billions is because me and you can't go open our own paper pushing company without immense capital resources to satisfy ludicrous state and federal minimums.

and those barriers did nothing to prevent AIG from going under. Those capital and licensing/regulatory bull**** did absolutely nothing.

So basically we have a cartel system of insurance due to government regulations. Why doesn't Walmart sell actual health insurance? Because they don't want to answer to a bunch of politicians.

More competition with drugs. IT should not cost $1billion dollars to bring a new drug to market. The patent period is too long, the FDA process is ridiculous.

IF you want to lower the price of anything that is not a natural resource,
just introduce more free market competition, it works everytime.

04-10-2009, 07:59 AM	#11
Bill-Watson Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 492 Senior Member	Need more competition. Introducing more government is not adding competition it is dictating to the existing competition, amongst other things: THey should lower the barriers to entry into health insurance in every state in the union. These people making billions of dollars a year pushing paper and the reason they getting billions is because me and you can't go open our own paper pushing company without immense capital resources to satisfy ludicrous state and federal minimums. and those barriers did nothing to prevent AIG from going under. Those capital and licensing/regulatory bull**** did absolutely nothing. So basically we have a cartel system of insurance due to government regulations. Why doesn't Walmart sell actual health insurance? Because they don't want to answer to a bunch of politicians. More competition with drugs. IT should not cost $1billion dollars to bring a new drug to market. The patent period is too long, the FDA process is ridiculous. IF you want to lower the price of anything that is not a natural resource, just introduce more free market competition, it works everytime.
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