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A health insurance exchange is a marketplace for the purchase of health insurance composed of various health insurers. In the United States, it is the main thrust of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

There was a long struggle between Barack Obama’s advocates and free-market health care advocates over the question of a “public option“, which would have created a federally-funded health insurance company run and administered in similar fashion to a private company, but at potentially vastly lesser cost compared to the private companies in the exchange. Republicans and their allies eventually defeated this “public option” idea by arguing that the public nature of such a company would give an unfair edge over the private organizations in the exchange and would “unfairly out-compete” the private insurers. After prevailing, free-market advocates dropped their opposition and the PPACA was passed without a public option included, ensuring the insurance exchange would be inevitably composed purely of the private health insurers.

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Jacksonville, Florida — Not since Bill Clinton’s first term as President of the United States has the nation’s chief executive, Congress and indeed the American people focused so much attention on health care, health insurance and reforming both of these interrelated systems. The debate over what can and should be done – and what cannot and should not be done – in regard to health care deliver and payment for services in the United States has intensified in recent days as both the House and Senate approach their summer recess. President Obama initially established the House recess date of August 3 as the deadline for which he actually wanted to see health care and health insurance legislation on his desk in the Oval Office.

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Before we can even discuss the health insurance reform we need to focus on the real issues, the foods we eat. The majority of the foods we devour are manufactured by big businesses that have a ton of influence in Washington. These businesses do not want anyone talking about them because their foods are causing diseases, which flood our healthcare system with unhealthy people. It’s all that added sugars, preservatives, and unnecessary carbohydrates. Hydrogenated oils have been known to damage normal brain and heart functions. There are a lot of our foods that are packed with sodium nitrate that causes cancer. It is a proven fact that people who constantly eat processed meats have a higher risk of getting pancreatic cancer. All this arguing about who is going to pay for our diseased country is just a distraction from the main issues which are the foods and the beverages that are causing these diseases in the first place. Rather than putting so much emphasis on the healthcare reform I suggest investing more time and money in preventative programs, educating the public about proper health care and producing healthier foods. What is your opinion?