Montanans Support Gov’t-subsidized Health Insurance

Well, we’re subsidizing it anyway, aren’t we? When uninsured and/or low-income patients can’t pay their bill, the cost gets shifted to everyone else. When people don’t get care because they can’t afford it, and then present with conditions that are serious or advanced, the cost is higher. We’re already paying for it indirectly; might as well let the providers recoup at least some of their costs and reduce some of the cost-shifting on everyone else.

If you really want to get technical, the entire concept of insurance is one giant subsidy. When I pay my premiums and deductibles and co-pays, I’m subsidizing everyone else in the risk pool. It may not be fair, but right now it’s how the system works.

BTW, the working poor who are the most likely to qualify for subsidized insurance are paying taxes too.

Trickeration indeed.

I could argue that my health insurance premium is in fact not voluntary. I have no say in the dollar amount nor in my co-pay and deductibles; my employer offers one option, take it or leave it.

If I opt not to enroll, then my “choice” is to be uninsured, with everything that entails.

So theoretically and in principle, it’s voluntary… but in practice it’s not.

Just for the sake of argument.

Thank you Matthew, well said. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like you’ve read Atlas Shrugged . . .

I knew Montana was going down the slippery slope when it got rid of the “reasonable and prudent” speed limit.

Well Said Gasman, I didn’t think about it like that. But that begs the question, do you think they realize their pawning it off on other people? Is it a class-envy thing where its ok to tax the rich?