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

To: Lane3 who wrote (11509)	11/18/2009 6:48:37 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

The comment I responded to was about health care costs, not health insurance premiums. If you spread the costs among more people, that would "cost everyone" less. Not the people your spreading it to, the new people pushed to buy insurance. Also any mandate (and the one in the bill is no exception) is likely to also mandate coverage levels (which is somewhat understandable otherwise people could buy a policy that basically insures them against almost nothing, and satisfy the mandate), which will tend to push up prices even for many of those who are already covered. (And that's not the only way this bill would raise costs, but for the moment, in this conversation, I'm limiting myself to comments that would be likely to relevant to almost any real world mandate, not ones highly specific to a particular bill).