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:	post by Headbanging_Man at 2012-06-28 15:12:04

yummy said	[orig][quote]
I think I can understand everyone's sentiment here. But, if everyone pays into this and it causes company's like blue cross to bring down their rates because they would no longer be competetive, how is this the worst thing ever?

The problem is it's not designed to effectively pool and spread the risk, which is what a real single-payer system would do. It's designed to guarantee the current for-profit health insurance regime remains profitable; there are attempts to control prices and to force insurance companies to stay consistent with their coverage, but they are not strong elements of the law to begin with and are those parts most voraciously lobbied against by the insurance companies... I'd imagine big Pharma is lobbying heavily too, as the current insurance system facilitates their massive price gouging practice.

Though I believe the political back and forth over the shaping of the bill was generally staged kabuki to provide public cover for a bill conceived and written entirely by lobbyists, the final stage for Democrats was to sell the bill to their more progressive constituents as a first step. "Pass this now and we'll fix it later". Ha! As it stands, the mandate is the strongest part of the bill, so now we are forced to buy private insurance yet, with a few exceptions, no major restraints are placed on the insurers.

The SCOTUS ruling is particularly interesting since it kept the mandate alive by ruling it a "tax". How fortunate for the health insurance cartel! This is the first time a "tax" has been instituted which doesn't even go through the hands of the government before funneling into the pockets of private corporations. I am sure the defense contracting industry is positively green with envy.

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