State Mandates Driving Up the Cost of Health Insurance!

I am paying for my breast reconstruction, cleft palate, cervical cancer screening, mammography...hmmmm.

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...and not ony in the way discussed in this video. That college students, for example, are forced to have insurance is both a sure fire way to 'pay off the lobbyists' and to ensure that prices always go up--there is no incentive to lower premiiums because the government has guaranteed to force payment of the costs through the mandates.

This is not discussed because so many people are involved in the scam-insurers, brokers, medical providers and all the support industries that make it go round.....

Eliminating mandates (ie. getting government out of the business) and tort rreform are the only ways to lower costs.

It's pretty much axiomatic that if coverage is mandated for something you don't need it for, you end up overpaying.

This is also at the heart of the House health plan; giving, which is code for forcing upon , everyone, "comprehensive" coverage. With its attendant costs. Like obesity treatment coverage for someone looking like the girl in that video.

Or abortion coverage for nuns, since even if legislation does not explicitly mandate abortion coverage in the "public option", as long as it does not specifically prohibit it, all someone wanting it has to do, is find a doctor calling it "medically necessary". Just like many doctors may well consider liposuction "medically necessary" for someone too heavy to get out of bed an onto a treadmill. And, as time progresses, for someone who threatens suicide due to low self esteem, on account of being about four times the size of that video girl, and at the same time growing up in a culture where a woman is considered worth about the inverse of her weight in gold, or something.

Hmmmm, perhaps we could call it Health Care A la carte ;)

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Certainly a good place to start if politicians are really trying to figure out how health insurance can be more affordable.