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In reply to the discussion: Palin's run-on sentence word salad solution to healthcare reform [View all]jmowreader
(53,238 posts)Free market: this means insurance sales across state lines. Problem, besides the fact the insurance companies will only sell it across the West Virginia state line, is the state departments of insurance. One justification the baggers use is, if you don't want abortion care in your policy (or whatever other thing you don't want) and you live in a state that requires it, you should be able to buy from a different state. Well...if the state department of insurance requires it, it doesn't matter where you go.
Tort reform: means making it really hard to sue for malpractice. As we all know, if you go to the hospital to have a precancerous mole removed from your chin and they give you a penectomy instead, you don't deserve any financial compensation.
Less trajectory of the cost increases: repeal Reagancare and allow emergency rooms to turn away indigents.
We could cure nausea in America overnight by implementing jmocare: deport Sarah Palin to Papua New Guinea or Borneo and hope the headhunting tradition hasn't died out yet.