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Every American has "access" to quality health care. Every American does not have access to quality health insurance which is the key to care. Why not?

Because there is a federal law on the books which prohibits interstate commerce in health insurance. You get such laws by spending lots of money on lawmakers who can be bought and sold and then do as you ask. This limits the number of health insurance vendors in your state and makes a true free market impossible. Free markets encourage competition between vendors who must then offer the greatest number of services at the lowest possible price, putting the consumer in the driver's seat. Competition invariably results in lower prices and the greatest amount of service. Think about the fact that other forms of insurance we pay with little complaint and ask yourself what would happen to those prices if competition were disallowed there.

If you really want children to have access to quality medical care, work to repeal the federal law limiting competition between health insurance vendors. Your appeal to humanism is not an answer to the problem.

From: Letter to the editor: Let’s work toward a world where no child lacks access to quality health care

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