Posted on 11/23/2008 9:17:34 AM PST by John Semmens
Two industry trade groups, America’s Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association announced that they are willing to accept a government requirement that insurers accept all applicants if, in exchange, the government forces everyone to buy insurance.
“People with pre-existing health problems aren’t really buying insurance, they’re asking that someone else pay their medical bills,” said industry spokesman William Welsh. “The only way to make this work is to require people who don’t think they need insurance to buy it anyway. This will enable us to cover the losses on the ill from profits on the healthy.”
Welsh rejected the characterization that this plan is “socialized medicine.” “It’s not as if the government would be taking over,” Welsh explained. “Private insurers would still be running things. All the government would do is compel everyone to buy our product. It’s a ‘win-win’ situation for everybody.”
Physician-legislator, Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) criticized the proposal. “Okay, so they’re following the Mussolini model rather than the Stalin model,” Paul said. “But I wouldn’t say that this semi-socialized medicine is cause for Americans to rejoice. Insurance industry profits may be secured, but the quality and cost of health care will still be headed in the wrong direction.”
This new position taken by the insurance industry is seen to greatly increase the odds for passage of President-Elect Barack Obama’s health care plan.
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I think the problem with that is you would have a small but significant percentage of people have conditions that wiped out their health savings accounts. That is the reason for health insurance anyway.
But if everyone did this, it would be quite cheap to purchase insurance against running out of money, and everyone could be required to do that too.
The chief problem would be getting the thing started, and allowing time for balances to build up.
WEll I didn’t buy a house in a flood plain area without flood insurance either, but nice try. And again, if you are in a flood plain, you have to buy insurance, as you well know. I was commenting on people who can’t buy insurance because their homes are not designated to be in a flood area, yet by some fluke, there is a flood.
I’m sorry but I have no idea what your post meant.
Maybe I better get some Michigan hurricane and eathquake insurance too. I live on some of the highest ground in the state and it’s all downhill from here. I don’t need some know it all telling me that there might be a flood when they clearly don’t know what the heck they’re talking about.
My house is paid off and I’m out from under paying for someone elses flood insurance.
forcing? I thought free choice was somewhere in the equation or was that personal responsibility? Nahhhh.
We the government FORCE you!!!! BRILLIANT COMRADE.
HAHAHAHA. You are already being forced to pay for those ‘personal responsibility’ folks (and those illegal aliens) — you know when they get free care at the emergency room?
Of course, who cares about that right? BRILLIANT COMRADE!!!
If you don’t have a mortgage, then why do you have to purchase flood insurance? I don’t care if you have any insurance myself, that is your decision. But when you originally bought your house and asked for a mortgage, you had to play by their rules. Sorry, but that is life.
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