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> cross the border as soon as they get sick One solution is to put a delay on eligibility. In your example, Maryland would provide free healthcare to anyone wh
by xapata 9y ago
> cross the border as soon as they get sick
One solution is to put a delay on eligibility. In your example, Maryland would provide free healthcare to anyone who has lived in Maryland as a permanent resident for 5+ years. Much like state universities. There's two different costs and in-state tuition is much cheaper. No more freeloading. Or less, anyway.
Whenever someone tells me, "It's too complicated!" I just think they're lazy. I usually don't say it though, to be polite. Instead I try to walk them through algorithmic thinking in a way that doesn't terrify them that I'll automate their jobs.
- rayiner 9y agoSee the case I linked. Such laws are unconstitutional because they discriminate against new residents from other states. State universities are a weird special case in constitutional law.
- xapata 9y agoAn interesting read. However, there are many differences of regulation across state lines. For example, insurance is quite fractious (pun intended). I'll bet there's some way to innovate, even if politicians haven't stumbled across it yet. Perhaps the trick is to avoid calling it welfare, just as "credit default swaps" stayed unregulated because they pretended to not be insurance.