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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (13411)2/12/2010 9:52:47 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
So, adding the young/healthy gives us a one-time improvement. After that, and from that baseline, rates continue to escalate the same as they did before we improved the ratio. All we get is a new, lower baseline. Nothing about that changes the escalation rate. It doesn't really solve the problem, just gives us a bit more breathing room before premium rates are back up to where they were and growing just as fast.

Your logic is a bit faulty. If you cut the baseline by 38% (to just use the number from Wellpoint) you do a very, very good thing in terms of disposable US income/investment capital. And if you also assume that insurance rates will go up, to pick a number, 5% annually from the lower base and the higher base you have also done a very, very wonderful thing.
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