2010/9/20 P. J. Alling <[email protected]>: > > You are wrong about that. The free plan already existed, it's called > Medicaid. Beyond that there is no free in new system. Insurance is already > a highly regulated industry. Since I live there and have a fairly intimate > knowledge of it I'll cite Connecticut as an example. The insurance > commission just approved a roughly 20% rate increase for two of the > largest private insurers that is directly attributable to the new federal > mandates, > > The "Affordable Health Care for America Act", is the size of the > Metropolitan Phone Book for the City of New York. Hell most of the > legislators who voted for it had no idea what was in it, most still don't, > but one thing it doesn't actually seem to contain is any provision for > affordable health care.
right. thank you. are there any solid figures as to what part of the anticipated increases is because people who were formerly excluded for being bad risks but would have liked to get insurance can now get it? around here private market insurance companies have forgotten much about mutual solidarity and reject anyone with so much as a sneeze, figuratively speaking. what i mean is, did it go from health insurance for the healthy to health insurance for everyone or was the system open to anyone with the right money before also? thanks ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
