> Not when we're talking about medical insurance. This was in reference to the most common reason for bankruptcy. The *underlying* cause for over half of them is now medical costs...irrespective of whether the person is insured or not. The job loss is just secondary to that. That to me means we have a serious problem in this country! People should not be at risk of losing everything just because they get sick or injured.
> How do you feel about mandating that small businesses provide > insurance or pay it in taxes? Then there's mandatory child coverage, > nice to have but if people are struggling now where's the money going > to come from? I am only in favor of mandating insurance if a low-cost buy-in plan for everyone is in place. Right now, the insurance costs are rising considerably faster than the cost of living, it simply can't continue. > I have a friend whose family plan went up because he didn't visit the > doctor enough. That's a new one...I think insurance just comes up with any reason at all to raise your rates. > If other countries paid their share we wouldn't have to subsidies the > world with our drugs and we'd all pay a fair price. Regardless, it's something that should be addressed as well. > It only makes sense that if you take > all the people that aren't in groups, group them together, you have > the largest group with the biggest influence. Why doesn't that happen? It's something we need a law to allow. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:254008 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
