Assignment:
Should the states be in the business of mandating insurance coverage? Do these regulations make consumers better off or worse off?
This is an opinion question. The consumers would have a worse time of it if states had their own laws for coverage. This is a big point of contention in the US. Universal healthcare is the wish of the President, but it is such a large and unwieldy thing, we have not yet as a nation figured out the most cost effective way for the end consumer to get high quality care for a low price.
If each state had to go through their own system of insurance, one might find themselves uninsured if they become injured outside their area of coverage. Too much variety, too many state budgets... This opinion outlines the idea of central government vs. state governments paying or creating an insurance business to support the legal mandate.
State mandates sound more like big business than managed care. Private doctors will always exist outside that system, but that care is expensive as well.
This Opinion states that a Centralized Government Solution for Universal Health care, for the well and the ill person, would be better than mandating insurance coverage. We have too much insurance in the US as it is! Putting us into further constrictions, insurance is less affordable than ever, especially if you have any chronic health disorder.
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