Try being a small business and get insurance.

[Oddball]

Who said anything about forcing conformity?? In fact, such conformity and uniformity is the problem, in states that mandate full coverage for everything from heart surgery, to chiropractic, to port wine stain removal.

All you need to do is allow people to buy the coverage they want, from whomsoever they want, whether that be full coverage, catastrophic only, or cafeteria-styled coverage where you can pick and choose.

 

[veritas]

I think it has to be done. States that have only not for profit health insurance are getting reimbursed at lower rates than states that do not for medicare. This is inherently wrong. FICA is calculated the same for everyone, so should the reimbursements be. Indexing for regional economics should come into play for costs, but not to unjustly enrich the for profit insurers.

 

[veritas]

Who said anything about forcing conformity?? In fact, such conformity and uniformity is the problem, in states that mandate full coverage for everything from heart surgery, to chiropractic, to port wine stain removal.

All you need to do is allow people to buy the coverage they want, from whomsoever they want, whether that be full coverage, catastrophic only, or cafeteria-styled coverage where you can pick and choose.

This won't work. Conformity within the states is how contracts are policed. Some states don't allow for profit health insurance. From the business end of it, it would be a mess. Not going to happen.

 

[Oddball]

Oh, yeah....Like more mandates upon insurance companies are going to make anything less costly.

 

[Oddball]

Who said anything about forcing conformity?? In fact, such conformity and uniformity is the problem, in states that mandate full coverage for everything from heart surgery, to chiropractic, to port wine stain removal.

All you need to do is allow people to buy the coverage they want, from whomsoever they want, whether that be full coverage, catastrophic only, or cafeteria-styled coverage where you can pick and choose.

This won't work. Conformity within the states is how contracts are policed. Some states don't allow for profit health insurance. From the business end of it, it would be a mess. Not going to happen.

Bullshit.

Forced conformity costs money.

 

[Oddball]

Who said anything about forcing conformity?? In fact, such conformity and uniformity is the problem, in states that mandate full coverage for everything from heart surgery, to chiropractic, to port wine stain removal.

All you need to do is allow people to buy the coverage they want, from whomsoever they want, whether that be full coverage, catastrophic only, or cafeteria-styled coverage where you can pick and choose.

This won't work. Conformity within the states is how contracts are policed. Some states don't allow for profit health insurance. From the business end of it, it would be a mess. Not going to happen.

Now, wait just a cotton pickin' minute here!!!

For 50+ years, we've had Medicare/Medicaid, a patchwork of state programs and defacto in-state monopolies on purchased policies....And things aren't a mess now??

And somehow or another, even more gubmint meddling and mandates are supposed to help, while more freedom and free enterprise is unworkable?!?!?!????

Wanna buy a bridge?

 

[veritas]

Medicare is a federal program. It operates the same for everybody. Medicaid is handled through the states.

So your argument is lame......did you even have an argument?


Interstate commerce implies interstate law. Who has venue? Under which laws would a case be scrutinized?

Federal option, one set of laws and regs.

 

[Oddball]

Irrelvant to the facts that those programs have been existence for more than fifty years, and they're on the brink of bankruptcy while medical costs haven't been contained in any way.

You want uniformity of regulations?....Nothing -but nothing- will do that faster than making medical insurance a free field of interstate commerce, by automatically declaring the myriad of state regs and mandates null and void.

The cynically dubbed "public option" is nothing of the sort....It's a Trojan horse to a federal monopoly, and anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty knows it.

 

[kwc57]

Ron Paul looks better and better all the time doesn't he?

 

[Oddball]

Didn't look too bad to me in the first place.