abolishing the private health insurance industry
This is an AHIP fallacy repeated to undermine popular support for public financed insurance as described in H.R. 676. That bill does not compell enrollment in the public plan; nonetheless everyone is eligible to apply for coverage. The bill does not compell persons to terminate private insurance coverage, nor does it prohibit persons from purchasing private insurance. H.R. 676 does prohibit beneficiaries duplication of coverages as do all commercial insurers; all policies contain a coordination of benefits provision to prevent over-insurance i.e. duplicate payments of claims. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
