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In reply to the discussion: America's Stunningly Overpriced Healthcare System In 2 Charts [View all]kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)with the highest costs in the world outside the US, has the individual mandate. But the Swiss are fortunate in that insurance companies that want to participate in the health care market in Switzerland have to offer basic insurance policies at no profit. You don't have to buy a basic non-profit plan specifically, or a for-profit plan, but you have to pick one, and they have to make basic non-profit plans available. There will be no such restriction on US insurance companies with RobamneyCare, but there will be a mandate on you.
Shows you what your rulers really think of you. They looked at the worst system in the western world (we didn't have a system prior to the passage of RobamneyCare) and deliberately designed a system derived from it, but an order of magnitude even worse.