Maine House Approves Health Care Overhaul (Portland: 2014, buy, deductible)

[dmyankee]

The BS and rhetoric from the left has been running like maple sap in March. I'm sure Emily Kane and her Dem Socialist Party troupe will be goose stepping to the media once again to continue spewing their morning talking points this week. The next round of improvements in this State can't come soon enough!

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Right now a 25 year old self employed, non-smoking Mainer pays three times as much as the same person would pay in Connecticut for medical insurance. That's a lot of money over a year. Our new legislature thinks the Mainer should be able to buy his health insurance from the same company at the same rate as he could if he lived in CT. He could put the money saved into a home purchase which would help our economy.

We can buy our home, auto, life and aircraft insurance on the free market. Why not do the same for medical insurance?

[Submariner]

I have no idea how to fix our state health care problems, nor our nations health care problems.

Maybe they should just write thousands of pages of law, vote on it and wait until a year later to read what they passed?



Seriously I doubt if any one piece of legislation is going to fix any segment of our current problems.

[cebdark]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

Right now a 25 year old self employed, non-smoking Mainer pays three times as much as the same person would pay in Connecticut for medical insurance. That's a lot of money over a year. Our new legislature thinks the Mainer should be able to buy his health insurance from the same company at the same rate as he could if he lived in CT. He could put the money saved into a home purchase which would help our economy.

We can buy our home, auto, life and aircraft insurance on the free market. Why not do the same for medical insurance?

Heaven help the self-employed person who works what would be considered a 'dangerous' job.

Why do we not do the same for medical insurance? My guess would probably be involve three words:

Follow the money.

[dmyankee]

Originally Posted by reloop

Heaven help the self-employed person who works what would be considered a 'dangerous' job.

Why do we not do the same for medical insurance? My guess would probably be involve three words:

Follow the money.

That would be three decades of Democrat rule in Augusta.

[mensaguy]

I don't know who read the bill or went and compared it to the existing law, but some parts of this bill will allow insurance companies to make fairly large premium increases (if I'm reading the law correctly). The existing law is here: Title 24-A, §2736-C: Individual health plans

Can anybody figure out what the differences are and translate them into plain English?

[mensaguy]

Originally Posted by reloop

Heaven help the self-employed person who works what would be considered a 'dangerous' job.

Why do we not do the same for medical insurance? My guess would probably be involve three words:

Follow the money.

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Wouldn't the "dangerous job" cause Workers Compensation premiums to increase, but have no affect on health insurance?

[mensaguy]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

..... We can buy our home, auto, life and aircraft insurance on the free market. Why not do the same for medical insurance?

All insurance companies doing business in Maine must be licensed by the state Insurance Commissioner, makeing all forms of insurance a limited offering since not every company is licensed to do business in Maine. For example, Erie Insurance offers very attractive rates for home and auto insurance in the mid-Atlantic states, but sells nothing in Maine and is not even licensed to do business there. Health insurance probably has the smallest number of companies licensed.

[Zymer]

Originally Posted by mensaguy

I don't know who read the bill or went and compared it to the existing law, but some parts of this bill will allow insurance companies to make fairly large premium increases (if I'm reading the law correctly). The existing law is here: Title 24-A, §2736-C: Individual health plans

Can anybody figure out what the differences are and translate them into plain English?

If one qualified for membership in an exclusive cub such as Mensa can't do it, what hope do mere mortals have?

[221B]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

Right now a 25 year old self employed, non-smoking Mainer pays three times as much as the same person would pay in Connecticut for medical insurance. That's a lot of money over a year. Our new legislature thinks the Mainer should be able to buy his health insurance from the same company at the same rate as he could if he lived in CT. He could put the money saved into a home purchase which would help our economy.

We can buy our home, auto, life and aircraft insurance on the free market. Why not do the same for medical insurance?

Bingo. Well spoken.
It would be great to see Maine assume the leadership role for the US in this legislation.