It all depends on whose ox is gored.
Thanks for outing yourself, Rummy, as one who is okay with the government forcing others to pay the costs of your illness.
Please don’t be inconsistent now and complain about taxes being too high, etc.
I have never been against providing for those that fit into the group that can’t get insurance. The reason I couldn’t get it? I had sleep apnea. No one would insure me. So I used short term health coverage until Obamacare came along.
I have absolutely no doubt that I am better of with Obamacare than short term health insurance.
But I recognize most here can’t fathom the thought of what it is like to not be able to get insurance and be at risk for what is coming down the pike..like surgeries, cancer, and very rare autoantibody that science doesn’t even really understand.
Being a workers comp case manager for about 27 years, I agree-dealing with insurance carriers-any insurance carriers is a fast education in what the terms “risk pool” and “experience rate” actually mean-you-or your employer buys a policy that covers employees, and everybody gets put in a risk pool-some people have pre-existing conditions, some don’t, but they are all paying a uniform rate.
In workers comp, if the employer has x number of injured employees in a policy period, up goes their experience rate, like it or not. But with private health insurance, all the people in the risk pool pay for everyone else’s injuries, illnesses, pregnancies, vasectomies, etc even if they have never used the insurance at all-that is why it called a risk pool-basically, you are gambling...