So Congress passes a law dissolving health insurance companies

[prolesunited]

What would be the repercussions?

[HereSince1628]

1. Only in a dream

Congress couldn't put together a reform bill that actually decreased insurance company profits.

[Armstead]

2. False premise

No ine expected that this time.

Your starting point ought to be whether or not we INCREASE the dominance of insurance companies, which is what we are about to do.

[stray cat]

3. DU would complain because health care still wasn't free with volunteers paying for them

[ClassWarrior]

6. Why is your profile hidden? You paint with an awfully broad brush, yet...

...you refuse to share your own information. Hmmm.

NGU.

[bigwillq]

10. What does that have to do with anything?

So if you don't share your info. you are somehow not one of "us"????? :shrug:

About to go hide my info. now.



on edit: Is your post supposed to be a joke? I just took a look at your info. While your info may very well be true, it's hardly your exact info. So I find it strange that you're scolding someone because they don't have their info. listed.

[ClassWarrior]

15. Sorry if I confused you...

...with Brew Town and Cheese Land. Those are sooo difficult to figure out. :eyes:

And I didn't mean to confuse you with my post, either. I simply found it rather ironic that a individual who characterized all of DU in one fell swoop chooses to completely hide its own status.

NGU.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. No one is asking for a free ride.

[Deja Q]

9. The only people complaining are the top 1%

They want everything for nothing and won't reward good work, initiative, or much else.

Just what's cheap.

Then they throw tantrums because nobody buys much of anything.

Take a friggin' guess as to why.

[Laelth]

4. Probably unconstitutional.

Corporations are creatures of the states. Any state legislature could do this, however.

Kill the bill.

Forcing people to buy insurance is no more the answer to a failed health care system than forcing people to buy houses is the solution to homelessness.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. I doubt that Congress could dissolve them, but it could forbid

them to offer basic health insurance without adhering to a choker collar of regulations: no deductibles, charge everyone the same, no copays for people below a certain income level, prompt payments unless there is clear, unambiguous evidence of fraud, no annual or lifetime limits.

[NorthCarolina]

8. They would have "Supplemental" Insurance policies available the following day (nt)

[gravity]

11. People would be pissed that Congress took away their insurance

[Phx_Dem]

12. When the government starts telling businesses they

can't operate because some people don't like them, we're all im trouble.

What bout the oil companies -- Haliburton, Exxon, etc. Should they be "put down" too?

Go live in Cuba.

[ipaint]

13. If they are maiming and killing actual human beings then YES

put them down. They need to be heavily regulated with the well being of citizen human beings used as the primary measurement for those regulations. As it used to be.

[WeDidIt]

14. It would be overturned by the SCOTUS

which is the one factor in the whole health care debate that most on the left have left out of the equation, myself included.

Look at the makeup of the court and think how easily the insurance companies would be able to get a ruling in their favor on a challenge to any bill that thwarts their supremacy in the money moving game necessary for the delivery of health care.

[TheKentuckian]

16. How about just cutting them out

no one needs to ban them but you can set it up so they have little purpose or ability to profit.

I was never that hardcore against big insurance but lets not get stupid, this bill doesn't even regulate them to any substantial level, fails to create cost controls, and even fails to provide market competion.

I think there is a huge area to work in between letting them run amok and banning them from existence.

[treestar]

17. It would be better to just pass a national health plan

Then except for the rich, the companies would have no customers. Well, for health. They still would be insuring cars, houses, etc.