The court will find some fringe provision of th law unconstitutional resulting in virtual cheers and high fives in here and on the extreme right. Meanwhile it is already so entrenched a d largely implemented that in reality the decision has little effect. Those celebrating will either be disengenous or disengaged from reality. In other words everyone will win!

teedubbya wrote:

It'll be close but I agree with your assessment, Bill.

Problem is, many of us "little guys" (small businesses) are either grossly under-insured with HUGE premiums and high deductibles or have no coverage at all. Some of us use our existing health insurance as a catastrophic policy of sorts- pay out of pocket until we hit the inordinately high deductibles. We are going broke.

Something has to be done to provide American citizens with a modicum of adequate coverage at nominal prices. If one undergoes a major health calamity, there's a good chance that the doctor makes "nothing' (unless he's a plastic surgeon), the patient goes broke or loses his home paying bills, and the insurer makes a boatload of cash which he greedily divvies up with their investors and executives. That has to change. If nothing else, they have to include more preventative coverage, dental, and vision instead of paying for some old fart's viagra or some Georgetown law student's contraception. [-x

bloody spaniard wrote:

I happen to agree with you 200%.... Funny only those with health insurance seem to feel the current system works... It doesn't. I'm in the same boat as you and health insurance has been an ongoing issue since I stopped working for someone else... We are now lookng at a $10,000 out of pocket HSE policy as any reasonable coverage for our small company (wife and I) is close to $2,000 per month for us... We have been playing health insurance roulette for he last almost 3 years and have maintained coverage by getting friends to put us on their group policies (by listing us as working for them when in fact we don't) but unfortunatly my buddy just changed providers and the new carrier has only a local network in his home state so we are out... He's in Missouri, we live in Florida....so we have been uninsured since March 1st....just hoping no one ends up in the hospital before I find coverage....

topper7788 wrote:

I happen to agree with you 200%.... Funny only those with health insurance seem to feel the current system works... It doesn't. I'm in the same boat as you and health insurance has been an ongoing issue since I stopped working for someone else... We are now lookng at a $10,000 out of pocket HSE policy as any reasonable coverage for our small company (wife and I) is close to $2,000 per month for us... We have been playing health insurance roulette for he last almost 3 years and have maintained coverage by getting friends to put us on their group policies (by listing us as working for them when in fact we don't) but unfortunatly my buddy just changed providers and the new carrier has only a local network in his home state so we are out... He's in Missouri, we live in Florida....so we have been uninsured since March 1st....just hoping no one ends up in the hospital before I find coverage....

topper7788 wrote:

If nothing else, they have to include more preventative coverage, dental, and vision instead of paying for some old fart's viagra or some Georgetown law student's contraception. [-x

bloody spaniard wrote:

... We have been playing health insurance roulette for he last almost 3 years and have maintained coverage by getting friends to put us on their group policies (by listing us as working for them when in fact we don't)....

topper7788 wrote: