Responding to The Associated Press story ''Gov. Bobby Jindal's Medicaid insurance plan gets support," reader upt86 commented, in part: Brett Duke, The Times-PicayuneGov. Bobby Jindal speaks at the Hilton New Orleans Airport hotel in Kenner Friday, January 21, 2011 as part of his "Building a Better Louisiana for Our Children'' tour. "...The fact is, you can't buy insurance without...
Responding to The Associated Press story ''Gov. Bobby Jindal's Medicaid insurance plan gets support," reader upt86 commented, in part:
Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks at the Hilton New Orleans Airport hotel in Kenner Friday, January 21, 2011 as part of his "Building a Better Louisiana for Our Children'' tour."...The fact is, you can't buy insurance without "paying for someone else's insurance." That is how insurance works - spreading the risk. If each person had to pay for his insurance personally, such that only his risks were contemplated, then health insurance would be rendered either unaffordable or not worthwhile, depending on how healthy of a person you are. In the same way, other people in your private insurance pool will be paying for "your insurance" as well. The exact same principle would apply to a "public option." The cost of health care is "socialized" through both a system of private insurers and also through single-payer or government run health plan."
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