The law of unintended consequences will work here. In states with no exchanges, there will also be no wage and price controls. Freedom allows innovation in an open marketplace.
We cannot imagine how the claims will be paid to work around Obamatron-care, but it will be, without having to resort to a black market at all. Just as business is flocking to right to work states, medical innovation will flock to those states which provide fertile ground for it to grow.
” In states with no exchanges, there will also be no wage and price controls. Freedom allows innovation in an open marketplace.”
The conservative states should do what they can to preserve insurance options and the right not to purchase insurance. We all know that the Left will pine away for single payor when employers drop coverage in these states. We need to anticipate the situation and get in front of the issue.
By having insurance executives openly discuss free market insurance plans, we can prevent the Left from co-opting these executives. If health insurance executives perceive that the exchanges are inevitable, they will side will the Left. The media will pick up on this and the insurance execs (and their companies) will lobby the rinos to get the state exchanges through.