Healthcare

[picard42]

Poll Medical CoverageHoop's latest post got me thinking about this. As someone who enjoys the game of politics, I'm finding this fairly entertaining. As I stated in response to Hoop, I do think that expanded medical coverage is inevitably going to come. Whether the pendulum stays to the left or shifts back to the right sooner than I think it will, it'll eventually

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[mouse_pad]

I don't generally like Mitt Romney, but he says things I agree with.

[gigerlicious]

As long as crap like this is happening, I think we're going to proceed towards a heavier socialized system. The prison system in this country is practically there to begin with.

[picard42]

This article highlights another problem I've noticed on the rise: the increasingly ridiculous things that municipal governments and law enforcement officials get away with. These are things like getting a kid listed as a sex offender for texting nude pictures of HERSELF, and all sorts of trickery designed to increase the volume of unreasonable traffic tickets.

I've seen more and more articles and heard more and more horror stories just from other middle-class white people. I can't even imagine how bad it must be getting for everyone else.

[obsequiosity]

What needs to eventually happen is they rejigger the incentive system so that insurance is decoupled from employment. Like, instead of getting the option to buy into Aetna at a Kraft discount, I just get the money and go shopping for my own coverage. Plus, so long as I can meet my payment, I can keep my coverage while switching jobs.

The reason individual insurance sucks right now is because the risk pool is so small. Kick everyone out into the open and those pools widen considerably.

--Obs, How the hell you do that without screwing over somebody, I dunno. Probably can't be done.

[picard42]

I think the biggest problem with this idea is that it puts the insurance providers in an even greater position of power. At least now, the provider has to, in theory, provide decent enough service and low enough prices to keep your employer relatively happy

[finback]

Our system seems to work. There's a government health-care support system, but they urge those who can to take out private health insurance.