Shirley - MA-Republican can not offer any arguments for or against any ideas associate with implementation of any health care plan since he ideologically believes they should not exist. So there is no point in asking. It is the standard ultra conservative belief the federal government should be not only legally limited but bounded by original number of federal employees in 1790 ( I am a little hyperbolic). MA-Republican would probably feel a lot better if there were no federal government at all, then he could rail against state government as overreaching and overbearing, and when that is dissolved he would rail against etc etc you get the picture. But let me not speak for MA-Republican after all those are my conclusions based on what he has typed on many previous occasions.

The idea from conservatives of cross border competition boggles my mind. On the one hand they believe in less government and on this hand they believe they should take away control from the states. On a purely Constitutional grounds every state should have standing to reverse this. And this is apparently one of the major planks for lowering prices. It is not a free market of the federal government is manipulating the controls.


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