Peter Schiff
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Colleges would be a lot less expensive.
Right.
Yeah, and people would work their way through like my dad did if they didn't come from an affluent family.
But they did the same thing with health care.
I mean, health insurance and health care is expensive because the government is so involved in it.
And even if you look at
where the government is not involved, like LASIK surgery, prices have come down for those procedures because the government doesn't pay for it.
And the reason that we all have insurance, people have insurance for everything now.
And in fact,
What really made it bad and Trump doesn't, you know, the Republicans want no role in repealing it is under Obamacare.
They said that insurance companies cannot discriminate against people who are already sick.
Right.
If you have a preexisting condition, the insurance companies have to charge you the same as if you were completely healthy.
Which destroys the whole concept of insurance and makes it extremely expensive.
Well, it's not insurance at that point.
It's not.
It's free health care.
It's like you can't buy fire insurance after your house burns down.
Right.
And if you could, nobody would buy fire insurance before it burns down.