It would outlaw private health insurance. Does the government have the right to make a sector of the economy illegal?

Quote from: The Boo Man... on December 18, 2019, 07:56:20 PM
It would outlaw private health insurance. Does the government have the right to make a sector of the economy illegal?

That was what Obamacare was going to do... AND unionize nurses and doctors.

Quote from: taxed on December 18, 2019, 07:57:26 PM
That was what Obamacare was going to do... AND unionize nurses and doctors.

Possibly. The insurance industry helped write the law and they supported it because the mandate forced people to buy insurance which on paper guaranteed tens of millions of new customers for the insurance companies. Plus the law included subsidies to offset any losses the insurance companies incurred.

Quote from: Double Jobber on December 18, 2019, 09:19:54 PM
I see two difficulties with this idea. One, we might as well become Canada if we do that and two, if such an impossible thing succeeded what would you do about all the cumulative accounts and investments for healthcare that workers have paid into? Reimburse them? What about medical debt?

The democrats would handle the medical debt the same way they handle the college debt and promise every four years to pay it off.