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If the Congress supersede every state law with national law, what’s the point of having states?
No one said anything about superseding every state law, just those regarding health care.
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Suggestion 1 has been looked at. They've found it doesn't work.
Who are “they”? And why should we trust them?
Why should we trust them vs a random HN commenter?
Here in Australia, most drivers seem to be using several other apps (Didi, Ola, etc) at the same time as Uber. So in that sense, they are a contractor in my eyes.
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> Why can't health insurance companies sell across state lines right now? Every state has unique requirements and Congress has never superseded them with a national health law.
If the Congress supersede every state law with national law, what’s the point of having states?
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Who are “they”? And why should we trust them?
Well, it's a common talking point. Have you looked into it? It's an honest question, who has the onus of responsibility for research? OP or me?
And the further reduced the tone of ambitiously taking any questions (especially on HN) the more you sound like somebody who migrated from 4chan to mess with us
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1. Deregulate the health insurance market so you can sell across state lines. 2. Employers start giving their employees the money they pay on their behalf. 3. People shop for the health insurance they want/need. In a year, every other advertisement on TV would be for health insurance, like it is with car insurance now.
Suggestion 1 has been looked at. They've found it doesn't work.
It’s sad that the idea of people being able to get by and live a comfortable life without the benefits from a full time job is so far outside the Overton window that it’s not even mentioned in these conversations. That seems like such an obviously better outcome for everyone - what if we got rid of healthcare benefits and other types of favorable tax treatment that are tied to full time employment so that everyone is…
1. Deregulate the health insurance market so you can sell across state lines. 2. Employers start giving their employees the money they pay on their behalf. 3. People shop for the health insurance they want/need. In a year, every other advertisement on TV would be for health insurance, like it is with car insurance now.
Trump additionally signed an executive order to setup a national way to do it, but it died off as a policy proposal because the insurance companies aren't interested
http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/out-of-state-health-insu...
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Well, it's a common talking point. Have you looked into it? It's an honest question, who has the onus of responsibility for research? OP or me?
re onus, everyone. And the further reduced the tone of ambitiously taking any questions (especially on HN) the more you sound like somebody who migrated from 4chan to mess with us
That way drivers could be more legally considered contractors (they set their own rates), and none would feel underpaid (after all they get paid the rates they set).
Having been an Uber /Lyft driver I can't even fathom what it would mean for a driver to be an employee with expenses paid. Is the driver driving a gas guzzling F250 entitled to a higher reimbursement for cost of driving than me driving a Honda insight?
My second option, as owner, is to offer a fixed reimbursement - per mile, per minute, whatever the economics dictate.
I'm not, as owner, going to invite 'come one, come all' with their random expenses and offer to reimburse them all.