re: #802 BryanS

It really made the Senate bill no loner make sense—from left or right perspectives.

I wouldn’t mind the idea of requiring employers to make health insurance opt-out for their employees. Wouldn’t 100% address the issue, but might get the lazy signed up.

The general idea as I understand it is that people who are for the most part healthy won’t by nature by likely to buy insurance, so they don’t have any when things go wrong for them. Likewise the people who do want to buy insurance as those who often already have pre-existing conditions, or are likely to develop problems and the company finds itself unlikely to make a profit off of insuring them.

The idea of making sure everyone has insurance by forcing them to by health insurance is sort of necessary to make the insurance industry properly ballance itself out.

Of course there are numerous ways around this.

Single payer comes to mind, as that really could be framed as a tax, you pay a certain tax out of every pay check you get and then whenever you’ve got a problem its taken care of with the government picking up the bill….