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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Robohogs who wrote (2587)	11/1/2007 9:28:56 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

"you cannot quit, move to a new state and self-insure as no COBRA/guaranteed acceptance on old terms would apply." That may be true. I appreciate you pointing it out to me. I would be in favor of adding similar requirements to individual insurance to accept in the same condition as employer provided insurance. FWIW when I needed individual insurance many years ago the policy of the insurers I spoke with was similar to what was later enacted. "divorce the insurance from the job so folks can quit and move on as necessary." That is a great idea. Get rid of the unnecessary remnants of our industrial past. "a change to individual policies with tax deductions for some amount as has been proposed by Bush." Absolutely! The market distortions caused by having health care a tax preference item is part of the cause for excessive healthcare inflation. In addition many people are much greater contributors to the economy when self employed, and some of those people remain employees because of benefits like employer paid insurance.