View Single Post
Old 04-06-2006, 05:59 PM   #12 (permalink)
ubertuber
spudly
 
ubertuber's Avatar
 
Location: Ellay
Quote:
Originally Posted by flstf
If this is true then why doesn't the state help provide health insurance to those who don't have it and lower taxes $350 million?

Why the complicated formulas? If the state wants to provide universal healthcare then they should just provide it and raise or lower taxes accordingly. Who knows, maybe the insurance companies will give them a great group rate.
If they did that, how long do you think people would continue to pay for their insurance? Not long, I'd wager. No - I see the point that if you are going to do this it has to be all or nothing. It will be very interesting to see the outcome of this. I'm skeptical, but honestly I wish Massachusetts well.

Quote:
Originally Posted by kutulu
Lots of people are able to keep health care under their parents policies into their 20's. I did. This may extend it a bit but not by a lot. Again, how is this that different?
This may be nitpicking since we've moved on, but I don't know anyone who was covered by their parents' insurance until they were 25. 21 and 23, depending on school status, seem to be the common cutoffs (and are what my insurance provides for any children that I might have). I'm not saying it's impossible for insurance to cover 25, but it must be pretty uncommon. Anyway, it's probably not worth figuring out since the extra 2 years of coverage will hardly be what makes or breaks this plan.
__________________
Cogito ergo spud -- I think, therefore I yam
ubertuber is offline  
 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360