Greed

no it won't, it'll encourage them to get away with what ever they can when they lobby the local politicians, lets keep it real, exactly like they used to, cept WAAAAY worse by your standard, states have always controlled their health insurance until the ACA, and cost were flying out of control, the fact is that the ACA has slowed exploding healthcare costs, NJ controlled their insurance affairs, so did Cali, all things being equal, my brother used to pay $350 a month for health insurance, and $250 a month for car insurance, while i paid $145 for health, and $32 a month for car, what's wrong with that picture? Unregulated free market capitalism is a fail, see bipartisan financial crash 2008, it is a must to have oversight, without it the greed becomes parasitic, sucking it's host until death, in turn killing itself, again, see bipartisan financial crash 2008.

the fact is the US healthcare system is woefully bad, the only thing it's good at is costing more with a lesser positive outcome than every other first world country/economy on the planet, the one thing it excels at is catastrophic trauma care. 
There is a glimmer of hope though, the rising costs of healthcare have declined 1/2 since the ACA, they're still going up, but less than 1/2 the rate of rise as prior to the ACA, and that is good news no matter your party affiliation.

there is nothing political about this, the facts are the facts, the lead link here is from Forbes for god sake, read it!
www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2014/10/31/key-study-on-obamacare-2015-premium-rates-is-out-and-you-wont-believe-whats-going-to-happen/#7fe272fe6c52
www.factcheck.org/2014/02/aca-impact-on-per-capita-cost-of-health-care/
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/25/donald-trump/trump-obamacare-health-care-premiums-going-35-45-5/

I am for more capitalism and the government allowing it to work properly, which they haven't done in a long damn time. I pay my Dr directly now and it's far cheaper than being raped by Obamacare. All of the Obamacare policies they presented us wouldn't even be taken by Vanderbilt Bone and Joint Clinic for my wife's arm surgery. I am sure glad she had the surgery before the Obamacare disaster hit. She still needs one more minor surgery to remove the plate in her arm but thanks to Obamacare, we weren't able to get it done. Her insurance from her new job is kicking in soon and I hope we can get it done when that happens.

That's because they knew what shit insurance it really is and they care about their people enough to not fuck them over buying that crap.

It's absolutely terrible insurance that covers very poorly and has deductibles over 6 times the cost of what I had before. That, is a major fail and I care to not discuss it further with you, Tony. You're a huge lib and I'm not. Our views will never mesh, so let's leave it at that.

ok Randy, you win, i'm sure in your world the ACA is insurance "face palm"

This neoliberal idea that capitalism left unregulated would flourish is nonsense. Do you think politicians started regulating out of boredom?

No,they do it because of a complicated mix of influences which is the VERY nature of the beast. The public, the 5th estate, lobby groups, ideology and the realpolitik of their careers guide them less like a hand and more like a series of vines pulling a wall apart. If you're against crony-capitalism, you're against capitalism. They're interchangable concepts.

If you're healthcare costs went up, it's because you could afford for them to do so. The cost you burden is the safety net for those struggling at the bottom. That's a social liberal concept where you don't deserve to die for working in Maccy D's and getting an abscess in your spine.

lol have you never heard of the housing market crash from a couple years ago?   The big bank bailout by Bush in the 2000's?   The great Depression in the 1930's?   Those happened because Capitalism was left alone and allowed to fester uncontrollably.    

Do you know what a housing lottery is?  They have them here in NYC when new skyscrapers are erected.  Basically, rich real estate developers build a new 40+ story apartment building in a prime location and are hoping to charge folks a BUNCH of money for tiny apartments.   By doing this, the developers raise the value of the surrounding properties and that makes the other landlords raise their rent, forcing out the tenants with lower incomes because they can't afford these higher rents.   So, the NYC HUD passed a regulation that says "when you build these apartment buildings, you gotta rent a certain percentage to folks in a specific income bracket.  Not only that, but you can't raise the rent every year more than 7%".  Here's an example of that: 



If we didn't have that housing lottery or rent increase regulation, NYC would be uninhabitable for most Americans because it would be too expensive. Regulations are good because they protect those that would be destroyed by the greed of others.

That was Clinton's doing...


spectator.org/articles/42211/true-origins-financial-crisis

Bullshit. There is plenty of proof if you actually want to see it.

1999, the Clinton's pushed Mae and Mac to create the housing crunch. Fact.

Randge, you seem like a decent guy but your politics are awful. FreedomOutpost ain't no Economist, that's for sure. Rush Limbaugh is meant for recovering crack addicts. Now say what you like but we'll watch the studio industry get gentrified out of practice, as is currently happening, and when your place is under threat and no one's intervening you can thank your Libertarian image of God that no one ever gave a shit about anyone else long enough to do something.