June 21, 2012
PURE ENTITLEMENT, THE IDEAL SOLUTION FOR THE WHITE MIDDLE CLASS:
How to make U.S. healthcare even worse (David Lazarus, June 22, 2012, LA Times)
Put simply, by eliminating the individual mandate but leaving in place what's known as "guaranteed issue" of coverage, the Supreme Court would be giving Americans a green light to wait until they get sick before seeking health coverage.Why spend thousands of dollars on insurance when you're young and healthy? Without a mandate but with guaranteed issue, you could just put off paying annual premiums until you actually need medical care. It would be almost foolish to do otherwise.This would have enormous ramifications for the insurance industry. It would essentially mean that insurers would be covering only sick people, rather than spreading their risk among the entire population, healthy and unhealthy.
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 21, 2012 8:18 PM
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