Read full NY Times Editorial- Insurance Company Schemes
Published: June 28, 2009
[Imagine a system] where individuals and small businesses could buy policies from insurers that would be required to accept all applicants without regard to pre-existing conditions and charge them premiums unrelated to their health status, and would be barred from dropping them no matter what illnesses they developed.
If health care reform requires virtually all Americans to carry health insurance — as it should — industry leaders acknowledge that there would be enough healthy people paying premiums to offset the higher costs of covering the sick and the need for rescissions and other such practices would disappear.
MOVING ON INTO THE HERE
7 years ago
Imagine indeed...that we all stopped spinning our wheels long enough to realize the solution to any problem is usually simple and obvious.
ReplyDeleteWe love to complicate things though...Kim Frazier Shaughnessy