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Lieberman Won't Vote for Health Bill

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)12/14/2009 11:27:57 am PST

re: #264 Thanos

Again each state regulates on its own - you can’t get a large semi consistent demographic pool out of those workers without something that’s nationwide.

What does that have to do with the fact that the pool, no matter how large, is unprofitable?

There is no natural health insurance market for those who are poor and chronically/seriously sick, any more than there is an insurance market for those who are poor and want to insure a mansion against fire.

It doesn’t matter how big you make the pool, if you can identify that that specific demographic, as a group, costs more than they pay into the system. And those groups are identifiable.