health care

[noodle_nose]

a couple of weeks ago, our company had a big group meeting with our CEO and a few VPs of the different business units within our company. it was long and boring and held in a very smelly gym at a local school (the building we USED to use for our company-wide meetings was sold and we don't have an agreement to use their facilities). i spent the

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[heypacksees]

I’ve been assured that, in California, as long as you work for a corporation, an HMO can’t turn you down for a pre-existing condition.

Nonetheless, I’m forgoing surgery this year, in case I was misinformed.

[heypacksees]

Does Obama’s plan make health insurance mandatory? If so, how does it address the basic problem of affordability? What happens to scofflaws when they fall ill? And on a historical note: When car insurance was made mandatory, did rates drop?

Maybe it’s a vestige of my upbringing, but mandatory insurance strikes me as 1) a massive new tax to 2) subsidize an industry that’s already doing fairly well for itself.

[noodle_nose]

i think the only thing mandatory is for ALL children to be insured. therefore their parents and/or guardians need to make sure the get or have insurance that covers them.

employers, i believe, are given a choice whether to offer employees health benefits themselves OR they can pay into the government fund which will offer the public health care coverage. small business are exempt from this and those companies which opt out of the government pool will get some kind of tax credit for making health insurance available to their own employees.

i'm pretty sure that's how his plan works. nothing is mandatory, but it makes finding and buying health insurance a little easier and attempts to make it affordable.