Does anyone realize that by making health insurance mandatory, your insurance premiums will skyrocket?

[darvell]

just like car insurance premiums have? And when premiums skyrocket, everyone will be moving to the cheaper government run policy. If the government really cared and wanted to bring costs down, they would get out of bed with the specdial interest groups such as malpractice lawyers and PHARMA and reform these things.

[barnett]

It is precisely what happened in California when they made auto insurance mandatory years ago. There is no reason why it happen again. In addition, it was Medicare that made hospital charges skyrocket at three times the inflation as the market as a whole. As soon as the hospitals and corporate medical groups understand they will get paid no matter what, their prices will jump plenty, as well. Anyone who thinks this Obamacare crap has anything whatsoever to do with health or care is a fool and a marxist. It will do neither. But, It WILL line the pockets of Congress-people. And that is the purpose of it all. Making money for those in power and concentrating that power base. The rest are just lazy bastards who think they will get something for nothing.

[boyce]

Yes, those of us who oppose it do. The liberals, however, either don't know or don't care.

[vruyk]

I realize that, but pelosi, reid, and Obama don't, or at least they don't care.

[osryd]

Yes most understand this, which is why they don't want to see it happen.

[amdt57]

wouldn't that mean they will have more customers?

So because they will have more customers they have to raise the premiums. No I do not understand that.

[norwyn]

but but but its free

*end sarcasm*

[thacher]

These things are just what Obama and his cohorts want, to break the back of the American taxpayers.

[maddox]

That is not what has happened in other nations where insurance is mandatory (and where the companies have to cover pre-existing conditions).

I take it you do not realise that.

It surprises me that so many Americans seem not to be aware about Obama’s healthcare plans [a]. During the election, he campaigned for these changes stating that he felt it was unfair to have a system where insurance companies try to escape paying claims and was elected to bring in changes [b].
First of all, too many people do not know that Obama wants to make insurance more available to all. His system is similar to that which works in Holland, Taiwan [c] and Switzerland. It works there and private healthcare companies provide most the insurance to the people there.
FACT - the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet [d].
FACT – insurance companies admit that they push up costs, buy politicians and do not pay out for many claims when they should [e].
FACT - the US has higher death rates for kids aged under five than western European countries with universal health coverage [f].

That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, France, the Netherlands, Cuba, Switzerland, Germany, Japan etc, all of which have universal health coverage. And no western European nation with universal healthcare has moved away from it. And the sad thing is, that the insurance companies have spent loads of money to fight these reforms [g] and loads of politicians are taking the thirty pieces of silver from them to fight the reforms, rather than fight for the health of the American people.

Remember, I back my facts up with evidence. Those who say they are wrong tend not to. If they are wrong, e-mail me with proof and let me know.

[garbhach65]

Yes, I realize that. Additionally, the coverages I want will not be the same as the coverages mandated by the government.