Comments on: Universal Healthcare on the Horizon http://kvnuforthepeople.com/2009/03/03/universal-healthcare-on-the-horizon/ The official blog of KVNU's For the People Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:42:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Ronald D. Hunt http://kvnuforthepeople.com/2009/03/03/universal-healthcare-on-the-horizon/comment-page-1/#comment-69452 Ronald D. Hunt Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:50:09 +0000 http://kvnuforthepeople.com/?p=3789#comment-69452 The governments current insurance programs Medicad,Medicare,SCHIP are designed to cover the highest cost portions of the risk pool. These programs cover all the groups that are politically prudent to satisfy, "medicare" the old (biggest voter block), "SCHIP" the young(save the children), Medicad this covers a smatter misc of groups mostly those who would be uninsurable(aka special interest section). The need for these programs is created by a overly employer based system where coverage is tied to your employment, And by insurance company's pushing out everyone that isn't healthy or is in a group that has a higher risk of becoming not healthy. It is disingenuous to compare the current government insurance plans costs to the public plan propsed by the Democrats. Not that I support the public option, Having watched my dad's insurance premium rise above the cost of his house payment has me considering just about anything that will reform the system. In lue of of another option I would have to throw my support behind the Democrat plan. The governments current insurance programs Medicad,Medicare,SCHIP are designed to cover the highest cost portions of the risk pool. These programs cover all the groups that are politically prudent to satisfy, “medicare” the old (biggest voter block), “SCHIP” the young(save the children), Medicad this covers a smatter misc of groups mostly those who would be uninsurable(aka special interest section).

The need for these programs is created by a overly employer based system where coverage is tied to your employment, And by insurance company’s pushing out everyone that isn’t healthy or is in a group that has a higher risk of becoming not healthy.

It is disingenuous to compare the current government insurance plans costs to the public plan propsed by the Democrats. Not that I support the public option, Having watched my dad’s insurance premium rise above the cost of his house payment has me considering just about anything that will reform the system.

In lue of of another option I would have to throw my support behind the Democrat plan.

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