On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: >> Expensive ailments does not mean higher premiums. It means higher >> *payouts*. In any case, it is reasonable enough to say that a >> 'Cadillac plan' should be carefully defined so as not to penalize some >> class of poor workers. But how do you go from there to opposing the >> tax entirely? >> -raghu. > > Dude, if a shop has a bunch of old, overweight people in it -- like me > -- the insuror is going to charge premiums that defray expected costs.
You are right, but a lot of that also has to do with discrimination by insurance cos against "pre-existing conditions" and such. I think the bill in the Senate has provisions to ban such things, so at least partly the costs should be more evenly spread out in future. -raghu. -- Q: What's the contour integral around Western Europe? A: Zero, because all the Poles are in Eastern Europe. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
