Re: For Hal: Health Care Reform support falls to new low

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:44:46 -0500, "Stanley Moore"
<smoore20@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

to competing plans at prospective employers. I certainly did not though my
previous employer was a medical school that had excellent coverage. Anyway
employers would have an incentive to drop their private plans in favor of
enrolling their employees in the government plan. Take care.

Then the private insurance companies can offer cheaper policies to
compete with the government plan. If private companies can offer some
value-added plans they can charge a higher premium for them and people
can pay extra for an upgrade if they want.

Then why don't they offer cheaper policies to business to beat their
competition right now?

They have a monopoly. No one is willing to offer cheaper policies
because they don't have to. They aren't competing with each other for
best/cheapest policies. They are working together to keep prices
high.

Today someone mentioned that a stumbling block is the
prohibition against selling insurance across state lines. A guy in
Pennsylvania pay 33% less than a guy across the Delaware in New Jersey. You
can buy car insurance nationwide usually. Why not health insurance. Take
care

you will be able to soon, after the Democrats overhaul the insurance
industry. Like I've been saying, this is a GOOD THING.
.

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