On Feb 14, 2008, at 8:20 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> What's so bad about health insurance priced at community rating
> levels (otherwise not available) and available to all? Why not
> wait until you see the prices before you bitch about whether it's
> affordable?
For most people without health insurance, there's no such thing as an affordable kind. In Massachusetts, a 60-year-old single man would pay $4,600 a year for the state plan. How many people of modest means have $400 a month to spare?
> Meanwhile, as you know a lot of people have health insurance. How
> viable do you think it is to tell them to forget about their plans,
> they will be put into a new, standardized (single payer) government
> plan?
We're doomed.
Doug