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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (51926)	3/5/2008 8:43:14 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540807

Say you have a three-employee business and the state government requires that companies offer you a small group plan ... sounds good but the insurance companies do NOT want that business, they lose money on it Can you back that up as a near universal thing, or at least an overwhelming trend (rather than some specific anecdote about one three-employee business)?

To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (51926)	3/5/2008 8:49:31 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540807

I agree with your characterization of the problem from things I've seen, too. No matter how you cut it, any system that uses the private insurance industry as the payer is subjecting its citizenry to a system that is adversarial in its structure. Like any profit-driven entity, it must strive to deliver as little as possible while taking in as big a payment as possible. The decision is thus simply one of whether or not we want this structure for something as important as the delivery of our health care.