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03/28/11 10:42 PM

#134725 RE: kozuh #134724

kozuh, is your .. "that's politics and Government' ...

in reply to my .. Fair is fair in Australia .. you need a good universal healthcare system like our Medicare, eh?" .. just not sure .. ?

Don't know if you saw this one ..

"A risk equalisation pool also operates in the industry. Health insurers with a younger and
healthier customer base subsidise those with an older or less healthy customer base.
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http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=61410262

I don't feel your analogy is valid, as "swimming pools" are an added luxury, purely optional, and diseases, age etc are not.

See also .. Australian and other universal healthcare schemes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care#Australia

Fair is fairer in health Australia .. you need a good universal healthcare system like our Medicare, eh?
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SoxFan

03/29/11 8:11 AM

#134758 RE: kozuh #134724

So you think bare bones policies are ok? How about one for car insurance. Say you have no money and can only afford the bare bones policy that an insurance company can sell you.

Why should we want that person on the road? As you know if one is hurt in a car accident it's the car insurance that takes over - how about a serious accident where that person is at fault and does not have the proper coverage? Who pays?

Thankfully most states have minimums one can buy and we even have underinsured/no insured accident insurance where one can get extra coverage if they (the underinsured) are at fault. The last thing I would want is having an isurance company that can sell across state lines and ignore the state regulators as that is a recipe for abuse like we saw in the housing market.