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And a bit on referees

Here.

Currently, consumers enter into a health-care contract with an insurance company. This contract has an asymmetric payoff, in that the insurance company gains when a consumer stays healthy, and the consumer gains if they fall ill. If a consumer falls ill, the insurance company would like to renege on its obligation. Yet it cannot, because the contract is enforced by an unbiased referee. That referee is the United States government.

The fundamental problem with the Democrat's health care proposal is that it will cause the the government to abandon its "referee" role in order to become my "contractual opponent." Democrats suggest that government can play the role of both opponent and referee. Maybe I'm too competitive, but I prefer when my opponent and my referee are not the same person.


Anyone who has ever tried to sue the government for something will know how that works.

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