ron paul: small pvt health ins co.

ron paul: small pvt health ins co.

I think Ron Paul is saying that small, private insurance companies will best provide everyone with health care.

Big companies mean big lobbying.

Small companies can try to work together to create big lobbying, but that can be stopped before it starts by existing anti-trust (monopoly) laws.

I believe he needs to be clearer about the role of government regulation, that some is needed like those anti-trust laws as well as relief for people with conditions very expensive to treat.

Much less regulation is needed in a world of small, competitive companies.

Regulators can limit what they do, besides preventing monopolies, to make sure those, with very serious conditions, get assigned to all small companies so as to spread the risk.

Then everything can be done to help those who are seriously ill.

That's what I want for others because as a matter of enlightened self-interest, i.e. the golden rule, I want it for everyone because I could end up as one of the few who need extra help, anyone could.

I don't want to put a price tag on any person's precious life and I think this approach is a way to avoid that.

And much of the cost will be reduced by the reduction of the number of dollars in circulation resulting in revaluing the dollar.

So if Ron Paul can be clearer in his message then I think the single payer crowd will come around.

Single payers systems have had some success but their size can invite regulatory abuse.

Small companies prevented from becoming big companies is the level of regulation I think Libertarians favor but their message is not getting through as well as it could.

After Ron Paul talked with Ralph Nader circa July, 2011 about small companies versus single payer, it took me weeks to figure out that what Ron Paul was proposing made more sense.

He said that everyone had television sets so through small companies competing everyone could have health insurance.

Maybe the analogy is clear to longtime Libertarians but it wasn't clear to someone like me who is trying to evaluate the philosophy after years of being fed alot of bad press by the mainstream media and Journalism 2.0.