The birthers, the anti-healthcare reformers, etc. etc.

[yesthattom]

Reasoning hasn't worked. We are dumb to reason with them because their goal isn't to have a constructive debate, it is to destroy the conversation so that there is no progress.

What we really should do is yell at them, "If you hate it so much, why don't you move to France!?!?!?"

Maybe that will confuse them.

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Which regulations on the insurance industry are you thinking of removing? I'm very, very much in favor of, for example, removing the state-level regulations that effectively prevent new insurers from entering given health-care markets, because that is very nearly purely-anticompetitive. That does, however, hurtle headlong into both issues of local control ("State's Rights") and would create a regulatory race to the bottom). Having a public option in place, to my mind, is simply the mechanism for guaranteeing that any insurer in any market will have actual competition for the customers in that market.