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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (129984)2/4/2010 2:45:25 AM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 541789
 
>>I'm not sure what's going on here. I already dealt with that, I thought. Companies would have "national policies." That means the number of different plans a practice would have to deal with would be the number of companies times each's number of plans. That would knock some number of existing providers out of the market and the net number of plans would likely diminish.

Why would you expect companies to register with all fifty states and sell Nevada policies to New Yorkers and Alabama policies to Californians? Makes no sense. It still seems like you're going out of your way to shoot it down or being intentionally obtuse. You know how companies incorporate in Delaware and ocean liners operate under a Liberian flag? Well, there would most likely be one or a few states that would be used by all the national providers.<<

No, Karen, I'm not being deliberately obtuse. Look at the post to which I was responding. If I read it wrong, and Tim wasn't suggesting what I thought he was suggesting, then it must be because I am actually stupid. So it's not deliberate, it's genetic. Or it's the dain bramage from my profligate behavior the seventies.

Anyway, if it is supposed to work the way you suggest, then how long will it take for the number of providers and policies to get whittled down in the market? And how much time do you think people have to sit around comparing healthcare plans? Moreover, is everybody going to be free to change plans whenever they want to? Or are their pre-existing conditions going to preclude that?
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