Comments on: Why “Shall Issue” rules are a disaster. http://abriefhistory.org/?p=1079 Mixed political and history blog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:37:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Michael Kennedy http://abriefhistory.org/?p=1079&cpage=1#comment-105966 Michael Kennedy Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:51:05 +0000 http://abriefhistory.org/?p=1079#comment-105966 I think a very basic catastrophic coverage policy would be very cheap. I have spent thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of hours operating on uninsured but most of them were illegals. One thing we learned when we set up the trauma center was that most of our admissions would have some insurance coverage, much of it in auto polices that had medical coverage. Many young people with few assets will be eligible for Medicaid, too. The big problem is with illegals, in my own experience. Of course, we were in the suburbs along a major interstate highway. Inner city trauma centers have a different demographic but nobody will convince those people to buy insurance and good luck collecting the fine. Maybe if ACORN offered insurance to employees. I think a very basic catastrophic coverage policy would be very cheap. I have spent thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of hours operating on uninsured but most of them were illegals. One thing we learned when we set up the trauma center was that most of our admissions would have some insurance coverage, much of it in auto polices that had medical coverage. Many young people with few assets will be eligible for Medicaid, too. The big problem is with illegals, in my own experience. Of course, we were in the suburbs along a major interstate highway. Inner city trauma centers have a different demographic but nobody will convince those people to buy insurance and good luck collecting the fine. Maybe if ACORN offered insurance to employees.

]]> By: cassandra http://abriefhistory.org/?p=1079&cpage=1#comment-105961 cassandra Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:58:06 +0000 http://abriefhistory.org/?p=1079#comment-105961 "Of course, the young voters who put Obama in e White House will pay through the nose. What’s not to like ?" Yeah that's the only laugh in this whole thing. But seriously, I think people should have the option to gamble..my brother lost his job with Unisys at age 51, and went bare until Medicare kicked in, while he applied for job after job, raised 2 kids and cared for a severely invalided wife. He lost all his property, kids went the Americorps/Army route to pay for college, but he made it to 65, thanks to his good genes. I gambled through my 20s as well. Why shouldn't people have the option to do this? Make an educated guess. Win, you save insurance premium money for basic necessities. Lose, give up your precious property and throw yourself at the mercy of the existing poverty healthcare system. I think that would be overall less expensive for *society* than this beast my senator is proposing now. “Of course, the young voters who put Obama in e White House will pay through the nose. What’s not to like ?”

Yeah that’s the only laugh in this whole thing. But seriously, I think people should have the option to gamble..my brother lost his job with Unisys at age 51, and went bare until Medicare kicked in, while he applied for job after job, raised 2 kids and cared for a severely invalided wife. He lost all his property, kids went the Americorps/Army route to pay for college, but he made it to 65, thanks to his good genes. I gambled through my 20s as well.

Why shouldn’t people have the option to do this? Make an educated guess. Win, you save insurance premium money for basic necessities. Lose, give up your precious property and throw yourself at the mercy of the existing poverty healthcare system. I think that would be overall less expensive for *society* than this beast my senator is proposing now.

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