My health care idea

[LuckyTheDog]

Virtually every state has a Blue Cross/Blue Shield outfit and/or some other nominally not-for-profit health insurer. So why don't we just co-opt them?

We could:

1) Offer each of them huge federal subsidies to insure the uninsured, the poor, people with preexisting conditions and anybody else we think needs to be served.

2) Put so many strings on that money that each institution that takes the money becomes essentially a public option.

Done.

[Nite Owl]

1. Could work

and would likely cost less then the monstrous Senate bill.

[BlueDemKev]

2. Here's MY Health Care Idea....

...DON'T GET SICK. Because the status quo is here to stay, probably for the next 50 years.

[BeHereNow]

3. Corporate Profit Healthcare Plan:

Hurry up and die serfs.
BHN

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

4. The Blues are not non-profit. They de-mutualized

about 10 years ago. They are all about the Benjamins. That is part of the root cause of the mess we are in.

[LuckyTheDog]

5. Most are still nonprofit

Those that are should be given a choice: Play ball or lose your tax-exempt status.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

6. You are right. I stand corrected

http://www.nonprofithealthcare.org/resources/BasicFactsAndFigures-NonprofitHealthPlans9.9.08.pdf