Many claim J-Mint doesn’t offer any alternatives to Obamacare. Factually, he’s been offering free market solutions to healthcare ever since he was in the US House.<\/p>\n
The blog of the South Carolina Policy Council Sen. Jim DeMint spoke Monday morning at the Daniel Island Neighborhood Association meeting in Charleston. The event \u2013 which drew about 400 attendees \u2013 was billed as a discussion on the economy and other political issues but it quickly became evident that health care would be the only topic discussed.<\/p>\n The crowd was almost entirely in support of Sen. DeMint \u2013 which was expected given the venue.<\/p>\n Sen. DeMint began his talk by outlining S 1324 <http:\/\/frwebgate.access.gpo.gov\/cgi-bin\/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:s1324is.txt.pdf<\/a>> , the Health Care Freedom Act <http:\/\/demint.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?Fuseaction=SponsoredBills.HealthCareFreedomAct<\/a>> , which he proposed in the Senate. The bill would implement the following reforms:<\/p>\n The proposal to remove barriers that prohibit buying insurance across state lines is one of the simplest, yet least understood concepts behind DeMint\u2019s reform package.<\/span><\/p>\n Democrats have dismissed the notion that this can be effective. That\u2019s because, as Sen. DeMint pointed out, few Congressmen, much less the president, believe in the free-market concept of the invisible hand <http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Invisible_hand<\/a>> .<\/p>\n But if citizens were allowed to buy insurance from any state, they could create insurance plans that best fit their personal needs. This would drive prices down, as insurance companies would be forced to compete against one another.<\/p>\n Today, however, large insurers \u2013 virtually all of which support ObamaCare \u2013 hold a monopoly in most states.<\/p>\n For example, according to the\u00a0healthreform.gov<\/a> website <http:\/\/www.healthreform.gov\/reports\/statehealthreform\/southcarolina.html<\/a>> , \u201cBlue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina\u00a0alone constitutes 66 percent of the health insurance market share in South Carolina, with the top two insurance providers accounting for 75 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n The easiest way to provide more options to citizens is to allow them to buy insurance plans from other states. South Carolinians would then be able to choose options that provide lower premiums and coverage better tailored to suit their individual preferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many claim J-Mint doesn’t offer any alternatives to Obamacare. Factually, he’s been offering free market solutions to healthcare ever since he was in the US House. The blog of the South Carolina Policy Council DeMint Promotes Interstate Health Insurance\u00a0Competition http:\/\/palmettoinsider.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/19\/demint-promotes-interstate-health-insurance-competition\/ Sen. Jim DeMint, seen here at a press conference earlier this year, spoke to about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-vL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>DeMint Promotes Interstate Health Insurance\u00a0Competition
\n<\/span><\/strong>http:\/\/palmettoinsider.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/19\/demint-promotes-interstate-health-insurance-competition\/<\/a>
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\nSen. Jim DeMint, seen here at a press conference earlier this year, spoke to about 400 individials Monday at the Daniel Island Neighborhood Association meeting in Charleston.<\/span><\/p>\n\n