> Jerry wrote: > > I think you misunderstood, which is not unusual. I want more choice. >
My greatest frustration with this issue is that nobody seems to understand how insurance works when it comes to health. They think it's some sort of magical money tree. When you "buy" insurance you are actually selling risk. Insurance companies take a look at your product and make smart buys. That's true for all insurance: car, home, auto, life, health, etc. So the reason that people are not covered or denied care or whatever is actually because their 'risk product' is not appealing to any buyers - insurance companies. Crash your car, your rates go up. Hit a kid, nobody will insure you. Same with health insurance. Add to this that the cost of health care is rising because: 1.) More treatment options 2.) Poor administrative structure 3.) Little consumer power. What the government is great at is solving market failures: Moon landing. Military. Freeway system. And healthcare. Think of the health care problem like IT: * lots of business stakeholders who all need X right away * lots of resulting projects, many providing duplicative functionality * lots of staff, ever growing, many providing duplicative functionality The solution is an integrated strategy that decomposes necessary functionality and ensures each function is fully provisioned and maintained. That'll take a LOOONG time though, so the first thing to do is get everyone coverage via programs such as in Massachusetts. Or something ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:293465 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
