Republican Disgrace: Pre-Existing Conditions Like Totaled Car or Burned Down House

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4. Putting on my devil's advocate hat here.

Huckabee is correct as long as you think of healthcare as a market, and while regulated, we have that. Pakman is equating health insurance with health care. They are not the same. I will grant Huckabee his market based insurance, as long as we have something else for the people who can't pay, like single payer. You can have both. Germany is an example.

In Germany, you get X basic minimum health CARE regardless of insurance, if you want insurance on top of that, go for it. We would be LUCKY to implement Germany's model in the US, it would be vastly superior and CHEAPER than what we have.


Of course, people like Huckabee would recoil in horror from something like Single Payer, so he's still a douchebag, but within the context of a market for INSURANCE what he said was totally correct. And makes a strong case for going BEYOND an insurance market, and implement HEALTH CARE via single payer or some similar system.