On 9/20/2010 5:17 AM, eckinator wrote:
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
Not really the point. This misnamed law does little or nothing for
people who cannot afford insurance, except make them subject to fines
and penalties. It hurts those who have it and can currently afford it
and does nothing to improve the service for those who are already on
some sort of government assistance. It does none of what was actually
promised at huge cost and complication. It does none of what it
promised while being unbelievably intrusive to the individual, to small
businesses and to large businesses, (though large business, except
insurance companies, don't seem to mind so much). Oh and any actual
benefit that might actually be derived is not even instituted until
after 2012, while the costs in taxes and new regulations are being
applied starting now.
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