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Mandatory health insurance does not necessarily mean a bloated government entity, particularly in a transition period with a reliance on employer based health insurance. The federal government is the largest employer in the country and government workers have a choice between numerous plans from Care First (blue cross/blue shield) to various HMOs and PPos and other options. There is no government bureaucracy. A health pool for those small employers who currently do not provide coverage come be administered in a similar manner. An expanded SCHIP program, administered by the states, not a federal bureaucracy, could cover other working poor.
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and who is going to monitor and regulate this to assure people arent getting ripped off in one way or another? this would be a scam artists paradise with millions of people buying into a required program. i dont see how something of this scale can be pulled off without government oversight.
small businesses banding together to help defray the cost is an excellent idea. maybe offering tax incentives will prompt a majority of them to comply, but again, who is going to check and make sure they are complying?
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Health care costs will be more manageable when we are all not paying for the uninsured who are presently working w/o insurance, when there is a greater emphasis on educating consumers on the cost effectiveness of preventive rather than remedial treatment, and when the entire system is overhauled to be more technology driven.
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i agree 100% with that. i just dont believe having the government saying "everyone has to have health insurance now" is going to solve the problems.
there are too many unhealthy individuals in this country with too few hospitals, physicians and nurses to care for them.
to me this sounds like the typical American obsession with quick fixes. lets not ID the root causes and fix those. lets throw a band-aid on it so all the important people can stand in front of the cameras and say "look what i did for you."