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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: John Koligman who wrote (5960)2/9/2009 12:22:58 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
The ways to predict likely expenses are far from perfect, but generally older people are likely to cost an insurance company more.

It can either subsidize older people, by charging extra to younger, generally more healthy people (charging them more than they would have been charged based on the risk to the insurance company, not more than older people), or it can charge the groups of people who create the risk for the insurance company.

The trade off exists for private or public/government/national systems. It doesn't go away just because the government runs the system.
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