http://healthnewscolorado.org/2014/04/21/opinion-in-colorado-exchange-cost-600-per-enrollment/ Colorado Health News and Opinion Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:44:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 http://healthnewscolorado.org/2014/04/21/opinion-in-colorado-exchange-cost-600-per-enrollment/#comment-19461 Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:59:45 +0000 http://healthnewscolorado.org/?p=15011#comment-19461 The economic dead weight loss IS staggering. Thank your local Republicans, whose insistence that the whole enterprise be privatized, and that, instead of health care, people had to buy health INSURANCE, based on a model from… ahem… 2012′s Republican nominee for the presidency, is primarily responsible for the sheer size of that economic dead weight. A single-payer, government-operated system – of the sort practiced in every other civilized industrial nation on the planet – would have been far simpler and far less costly to implement. Alas, with right-wingers screaming from the legislative rooftop, there was no political will.

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