Just heard on MSNBC, like Mitt Romney answered questions from Andrea Mitchell about yesterday
Romney likes one payer-who knows? My friends at FireDogLake will be happy. I’m not sure the kids at the Club for growth will feel the same way.
But this point Aaron Carroll shows today. Conservatives have great faith in the competition to promote health, by raising the quality and driving down costs. And while liberals like myself think conservatives believe too much in the competition, I think most of us agree that competition has at least some value.
The problem is that the competition could not exist without the correct rules. Insurers will use freedom to avoid enrolling sick people and to make any decision coverage would increase their profits. And while Romney suggested (in the same speech, I think) that the insurance would promote a better quality because they would find beneficial, experience tells us that is often not the case. Even if the good treatment that often save money, do not generate benefits for many years. (This usually happens with prevention.)