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    Quote Originally Posted by blue View Post


    Getting rid of group policies for individuals will make insurance Co's work harder, but it can make policies for individuals cheaper.

    You may be willing to pay for insurance you dont need, but Im not. Oh wait, I dont have insurance, and I think .gov healthcare is a bad idea.

    Okay, let's write an individual policy......

    You're a male, (cost just went up, we have a tendency to take lousy care of ourselves), some former mil experience (cost just went up again, tend to be risk takers), over 30 (Cost rises again).......ad nauseum. Exactly how does that make a policy cheaper, unless you're an 18 to 20 something male in good physical shape with no outside risk factors added in?

    Group policies are written to spread the risk of the coverage over a larger group, and mitigate the risk of an individual. The bigger the group, the less impact one individual will have on the costs of the group.
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    Don't forget the brain surgery....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human View Post
    Okay, let's write an individual policy......

    You're a male, (cost just went up, we have a tendency to take lousy care of ourselves), some former mil experience (cost just went up again, tend to be risk takers), over 30 (Cost rises again).......ad nauseum. Exactly how does that make a policy cheaper, unless you're an 18 to 20 something male in good physical shape with no outside risk factors added in?

    Group policies are written to spread the risk of the coverage over a larger group, and mitigate the risk of an individual. The bigger the group, the less impact one individual will have on the costs of the group.
    You are a member of a union arent you?
    I have a HUGE SIG!!!!



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    LH...the part of this that really has me chuckling is....the proposal to have "individual insurance" is closer to the communist concept of healthcare than ANYTHING that has come out of Washington.

    Wouldn't that be called..."from each according to his ability - to each according to his need?"

    Looks like we may have found a ....

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    For clarity Individual Insurance would be paid for by the Individual, not .gov.
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    Quote Originally Posted by blue View Post
    You are a member of a union arent you?
    And that has exactly what to do with anything?

    Oh, I forgot, we're all thugs intimidating the town hall attendees.

    You're an electrician, aren't you?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human View Post
    And that has exactly what to do with anything?
    Group thinking, cant get a good contract or job on your own.

    Oh, I forgot, we're all thugs intimidating the town hall attendees.
    Where did I say all union members are thugs? Only the union members beating people up at TH meeting were the thugs.

    You're an electrician, aren't you?
    I am a licensed electrician, and I have never been a union member. I can make my own deals for work, I dont need some union suit to do it for me.
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    Blue, I'm going to leave it at this:

    You have no earthly clue who you're speaking with or what you're speaking about.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human View Post
    Blue, I'm going to leave it at this:

    You have no earthly clue who you're speaking with
    Well duh, Capt. Obvious.

    or what you're speaking about.
    Wrong.
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    Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

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    And you've never recieved a dime from the US Government outside of military pay?
    The one eyed man in the kingdom of the blind wasn't king, he was stoned for seeing light.

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