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Health insurance is just broken. The only way it gets better is if something forces them to view the entire country as one actuarial pool.

• splintercell 9y ago
  That is not a solution. That's like saying "Prices of McDonalds burgers are really high, the solution to that is to give a fixed $15 tax credit for every burger people buy". A single actuarial pool is like not having a pool at all. If you want to support a single payer healthcare system, then say so, don't call it a 'single actuarial pool' because then the word 'actuarial' doesn't mean anything and at that point it stops being an 'insurance'.
  • kgwgk 9y ago
    Having a single pool doesn't kill the 'actuarial' part. Fixing premiums by law does. As does the fact that health insurance is more "prepaid medical care" than "insurance".
  • youdontknowtho 9y ago
    Was your problem with the term or with socialized healthcare?