Originally Posted by raymor

Yep. Which means only sick people will buy insurance, if they are smart. It's not insurance if you can get it after you get, if the have to cover pre-existing problems. "Insurance" is simmering you pay for ahead of time, IN CASE something bad happens. If you can buy it AFTER you need it, it's not insurance, it's a buffet.

Since there's no longer any reason to buy until you get sick, most of the buyers will be sick and insurance costs increase dramatically. The more they increase, the more healthy people will not want to or be able to afford to buy. Eliminating the last healthy people from the pool raises costs more, in a cycle. Within two years nobody is paying the $84,000 per year "insurance".

With private insurance no longer available, Obama will get the fully government run system he wanted in the first place. Kind of brilliant - cann't outlaw insurance? Just break it to the point it can no longer work at all, leaving the government run system as the only alternative.


I'm sure they'll do a good job. Tbe government does such a good job running recruiting else, from FEMA to the TSA. We all know government schools are SO much better than private achools, right? I'm looking forward to gang grafitti in the hospitals as government hospitals start looking like government schools.