But, as various people have pointed out, it doesn't quite work, in that there's a difference between being alive (condition of health insurance mandate) and choosing to own a multiton hunk of metal and hurl it around at high speed near innocent people (condition of car insurance mandate).
put the onus on employers to offer affordable coverage
Just this, without anything else, still leaves people SOL when they lose their jobs, and likely SOL when changing jobs given the pre-existing condition racket. Which is a problem in itself, but I'm also reminded of one of the things the supporters of the health care bill claimed: that having insurance decoupled from jobs would make people freer to change jobs (or try going into business for themselves, small businesses being the lifeblood &c.), and thus increase economic efficiency. I don't know if it'll actually work like that or not (well, I mean, no-one knows for sure yet), but it seemed like an interesting angle.
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Date: 2010-03-26 03:53 am (UTC)But, as various people have pointed out, it doesn't quite work, in that there's a difference between being alive (condition of health insurance mandate) and choosing to own a multiton hunk of metal and hurl it around at high speed near innocent people (condition of car insurance mandate).
put the onus on employers to offer affordable coverage
Just this, without anything else, still leaves people SOL when they lose their jobs, and likely SOL when changing jobs given the pre-existing condition racket. Which is a problem in itself, but I'm also reminded of one of the things the supporters of the health care bill claimed: that having insurance decoupled from jobs would make people freer to change jobs (or try going into business for themselves, small businesses being the lifeblood &c.), and thus increase economic efficiency. I don't know if it'll actually work like that or not (well, I mean, no-one knows for sure yet), but it seemed like an interesting angle.