The government could just tell people to buy their insurance on "einsurance.com". As for the subsides: you could enter the amount of your subsidy as a tax credit on your tax return. Done.
Insurance companies price insurance based upon an individual's risk. The fact that some people can not afford the price of their insurance either because they are poor or because they are high risk is not the insurance company's problem.... it is the government's problem. The government could leave the insurance market alone, but provide medicaid to the poor and high-risk pools to those who are of high risk.
It is easy to price compare and to save a lot money if you want to. Most people are too lazy to be bothered.
I have had no problem obtaining price quotes from every medical provider I have used and I have saved a substantial amount of money by doing price comparisons. For those who are too meek to do their own price negotiation, there are companies who will negotiate price discounts for you at the cost of a percentage of the discount obtained. Here is an example: http://www.medicalcostadvocate.com/default.aspx?group=hcbluebook
But fundamentally, you're asking for the impossible with your "end to end" encryption non-sense. The very first in a long list of problems is: How do you securely exchange keys with an entity you have no prior relationship with?
Person A calls person B and tells the password over the telephone. It provides secure "end of end" encryption and it is a lot simpler to use than PGP.
The reason why health insurance is tied to employment is that employer provided health insurance is tax deductible, while individual purchased insurance is not tax deductible. If health insurance was not tied to employment the politicians would need to find another way to increase taxes on the poor. It is typically the poor who don't have employer provided health insurance.
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Republican bill????
There were 163 cosponsors of the bill: 104 DEMOCRATS, 58 Republicans, and 1 independent.
A Republican bill???
There were 163 cosponsors of the bill: 104 DEMOCRATS, 58 Republicans, and 1 independent.
Snowden has said he does not have any more files.
well... if your wife knew she was pregnant when she applied for insurance she did have a "pre-existing condition".
It does not have to be a "giant project".
The government could just tell people to buy their insurance on "einsurance.com". As for the subsides: you could enter the amount of your subsidy as a tax credit on your tax return. Done.
There already exists recreational drugs without addiction or health issues... they are also all illegal.
It is a bad practice to give your passwords to non-employees.
Was there any technical reason why your website needed to be taken down?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZOi-_sPF6s
Capital gains are taxed at a much lower rate than that on salaries.
You could already buy all of the available plans through einsurance.com. I do not see what value the government website adds.
All Vermont needs to do is buy a copy of Kentucky's system. Kentucky's system works fine.
Cells phone are not banned because of possible interference with cockpit electronics. Rather because they could cause problems with cell phone towers.
The FCC prohibits cell phones on flights, not the FAA.
The solution is to send the email directly from the sender's PC to the receiver's PC without going through any mail servers.
Thunderbird provides no way to search PGP emails. Until this long requested featured is added, PGP is not usable when using a Thunderbird client.
Gmail provides better spam filtering.
His statement is truthful. NSA did not go "into a server"; this story is about NSA obtaining data as it passed between servers.
There is a third option. The NSA is not looking for terrorists. They are doing all this monitoring for other purposes.
"Taiwan, Province of China" is the official name used by the United Nations: http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/location.html
Other companies also use this same name, such as ebay.
Insurance companies price insurance based upon an individual's risk. The fact that some people can not afford the price of their insurance either because they are poor or because they are high risk is not the insurance company's problem.... it is the government's problem. The government could leave the insurance market alone, but provide medicaid to the poor and high-risk pools to those who are of high risk.
It is easy to price compare and to save a lot money if you want to. Most people are too lazy to be bothered.
I have had no problem obtaining price quotes from every medical provider I have used and I have saved a substantial amount of money by doing price comparisons. For those who are too meek to do their own price negotiation, there are companies who will negotiate price discounts for you at the cost of a percentage of the discount obtained. Here is an example: http://www.medicalcostadvocate.com/default.aspx?group=hcbluebook
The registration fee is $35.
But fundamentally, you're asking for the impossible with your "end to end" encryption non-sense. The very first in a long list of problems is: How do you securely exchange keys with an entity you have no prior relationship with?
Person A calls person B and tells the password over the telephone. It provides secure "end of end" encryption and it is a lot simpler to use than PGP.
The reason why health insurance is tied to employment is that employer provided health insurance is tax deductible, while individual purchased insurance is not tax deductible. If health insurance was not tied to employment the politicians would need to find another way to increase taxes on the poor. It is typically the poor who don't have employer provided health insurance.
BTW, the federal government is giving a $7,500 tax credit to save $6,000 is gasoline.