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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (16038)	4/3/2010 12:02:57 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

Ah, only disloyal reactionaries will game the system. All other peoples will behave as good citizens. Obviously people will game the system for financial reasons. You assume people can be prevented from doing this by financial coercion. But financial coercion is what you object to about the free market.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (16038)	4/3/2010 12:21:16 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

I've thought of a way you can keep those disloyal reactionaries from gaming the system. Establish a national cadre of informers located in every community. Give their reports to health care commissars, who'll have motivational cadres armed with whips and guns. You get the idea?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (16038)	4/4/2010 5:13:18 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

Thousands of consumers are gaming Massachusetts’ 2006 health insurance law by buying insurance when they need to cover pricey medical care, such as fertility treatments and knee surgery, and then swiftly dropping coverage, a practice that insurance executives say is driving up costs for other people and small businesses. In 2009 alone, 936 people signed up for coverage with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts for three months or less and ran up claims of more than $1,000 per month while in the plan. Their medical spending while insured was more than four times the average for consumers who buy coverage on their own and retain it in a normal fashion, according to data the state’s largest private insurer provided the Globe. The typical monthly premium for these short-term members was $400, but their average claims exceeded $2,200 per month. The previous year, the company’s data show it had even more high-spending, short-term members. Over those two years, the figures suggest the price tag ran into the millions. ...... Message 26436011