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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: jerryab   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Medicare Buy-In
Date: 08/18/26 12:07 PM
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If insurance companies were allowed to sell across state lines, there would be a race to the bottom among crappy red states.

So what? The FIRST year would be the killer for them. Everyone LOVES "low rates", but the health care PROVIDERS would not be paid. No (or mostly MISSED) payments from the insurance companies for INSURED care provided NATIONWIDE and "supposedly" covered by the red-state insurer(s). The health care PROVIDERS stop accepting that insurance. Then the health care PROVIDERS start requiring the insurance companies to PREPAY for everything because the insurance companies are DOCUMENTED as being "unable to pay their bills". The red-state insurance companies then "disappear" forever.
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