In the discussion about how Americans can be forced to pay ever-increasing prices for increasingly dysfunctional health care they can no longer afford, an important aspect of the problem has been ignored. Basically, its this: "Insurance" is designed for healthy people and its based on the assumption that buyers are healthy when they buy it. Of course, many people have health issues, so the insurance industry and others, like the government, has in the past and in the future too, I'm sure, will be doing everything they can to avoid having them as customers.
The government isn't being honest about how they are trying to discourage those who need decent healthcare the most from being able to afford it, but AHIP, at least isn't lying about this!
"Ms. Ignagni said her biggest concern was that the bill would require insurers to accept all applicants for several years before the government had any meaningful way to enforce a requirement for people to have insurance. In that gap, Ms. Ignagni predicted, many people with health problems are likely to enter the market."