This is another attack on the last of our truly democratic institutions in America: trial by jury and damages awarded on the merits of the case as determined by a jury of peers. The corporate takeover of America is nearing completion...look out, Canada...you're next!
The government needs to offer insurance to the people. The thing is though, if insurance companies keep shortening the list of people they will cover are they not driving themselves out of business? I don't understand the motivation?
The basic modus operandi of HMO's in America is to contain costs by minimizing outlays, and what better way to do that than increasingly limit coverage to higher-income (read: upper-middle and upper class) "consumers", who tend on average to be healthier, and limit access for poorer and demographically "sicker" consumers. Since the cost of health care is primarily paid by employers - and these employers increasing are limited to companies that employ wealthier white-collar workers, these companies are better equipted to obsorb rising costs or increasingly pass cost increases on to employees. The indigent (uninsured through employers) self limit their access to preventative or routine care that they would have to pay for (and can't affort), and, when needing extensive care, turn to the publicly financed "emergency" care system.
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A brilliant racket, don't you think?