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

To: TimF who wrote (13727)	3/2/2010 11:27:23 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

What politicians want to do is look good by imposing mandates, and then let the insurance companies look bad by raising the premiums to cover the additional costs. ------ That type of thing is unfortunately SOP for politicians. It is? Don't you think you are exaggerating?

To: TimF who wrote (13727)	3/2/2010 3:31:32 PM
From: Peter Dierks	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

"What politicians want to do is look good by imposing mandates, and then let the insurance companies look bad by raising the premiums to cover the additional costs. " That type of thing is unfortunately SOP for politicians. The biggest cost saving of allowing interstate sales of insurance would be elimination of mandates in over regulated states. It would be interesting to see if over 10% of the population of Massachusetts carried in state coverage after three years of interstate competition. If mandates were lowered they would.