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I guess Nazi Pelozi was right: we could alllll be ar-teests if only we didn’t have to worry about that pesky health insurance.

Why can’t you small business people develope your own cooperatives to purchase insurance?
I understand your frustration: I think insurance could maybe should be offered at the same rate to all.
There is nothing more heathy about a pool of “Home Depot” employees that for you and the gas station owner down the street from you.

But why do I have to subsidize and run your insurance pool? Its done in a lot of places for “uninsured motorists” and it doesn’t save money. It has costs associated with it which are born by the insured drivers who must contribute to that pool. But I get something from that contribution: if i am hit by one of those people who refuses to provide for his insurance, I can get some relief from the pool.

Not so with public exchanges. I simply pay for yours and others upkeep. So I pay for my insurance and contribute to yours.

You don’t want to pay the cost of your insurance so you can pursue your dreams of your own business, to be frank about it. I don’t want to be forced to contribute to it.

You said "Why can't you small business people develope your own cooperatives to purchase insurance?
I understand your frustration: I think insurance could maybe should be offered at the same rate to all" I can't go around to other small business guys and say, "Hey Johnny, lets go down to the insurance store and go in on some insurance so we can get a discount". They like dealing with large groups but your second point is all I'm asking for: "I think insurance could maybe should be offered at the same rate to all". My second issue is really one of demographics. There will be 75,000,000 baby boomers coming on Guberment Insurance. I trust I am among friends. That group pool sucks! Too many old and sick people and dying people in it. Don't try to take their Gov't Insurance away, too many of them are armed. We have to force young, healthy, income producing people to join our pool while they're young and stupid or we will be spending our golden years in warehouses getting hosed down 3 times a day by some Guatemalan nurse with a pocket full of Quaaludes.