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

To: Road Walker who wrote (13422)	2/12/2010 2:24:53 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Well if WellPoint is raising it's rates that much because of a demographic change then you have to assume that a demographic change in the other direction would have an even larger impact. Why? Unless it was a larger change. Also demographic change might not be the only factor.

To: Road Walker who wrote (13422)	2/12/2010 3:47:49 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Well if WellPoint is raising it's rates that much because of a demographic change... Let's look at this from the perspective of orders of magnitude. The number of people without insurance who could afford insurance is 9.1 million. There are about 250 million with insurance. So if you assume that all 9 million are healthy and add them to a pot of 250 million, you're not going to make much difference. You're looking at maybe 5%, not 38%. That's something but hardly a windfall.