Comments on: Is An Individual Health Insurance Mandate Constitutional ? http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/10/22/is-an-individual-health-insurance-mandate-constitutional/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Fri, 17 May 2013 18:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Quincy http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/10/22/is-an-individual-health-insurance-mandate-constitutional/#comment-69978 Quincy Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:07:01 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=6983#comment-69978 Christopher –

Those states also feature health insurance that’s far, far more expensive than states without such regulations. The model is wholly unsustainable in the long term, as people can only pay so much in insurance premiums to subsidize others before they go broke.

]]> By: Christopher http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/10/22/is-an-individual-health-insurance-mandate-constitutional/#comment-69977 Christopher Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:11:06 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=6983#comment-69977 Well considering there are states that prohibit a health provider from declining coverage due to a pre-existing condition, that doesn’t seem to be as penetrating a question as perhaps you’d like. The insurers in these states still post profits, are not in financial ruin, and are not seeking government assistance to help with the sustained cost of treating individuals who have a pre-existing condition.

]]> By: Mike http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/10/22/is-an-individual-health-insurance-mandate-constitutional/#comment-69825 Mike Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:58:40 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=6983#comment-69825 I am a health insurance agent in Utah and run two websites that sell insurance http://www.benefitsmanager.net and http://www.dentalinsuranceutah.com. I mention this because in Utah it would be great to have a guaranteed public option to put people that the private insurers will decline for health conditions. Plus the way Weiner discribes the public option, it will be priced competitively. So what this means in my industry (I’ve been at it 18 years) is that all my unhealthy clients that get charged more or declined can be put onto the public option now. All my healthy clients can stay on the private option. Hmmmmm follow me yet???? How long can the public option stay affordable?? Who is going to pay for the losses of a big sick pool of people….taxpayers?????

]]> By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/10/22/is-an-individual-health-insurance-mandate-constitutional/#comment-69822 Doug Mataconis Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:30:43 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=6983#comment-69822 But, I’ll look for the follow up and respond to that as well

]]> By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/10/22/is-an-individual-health-insurance-mandate-constitutional/#comment-69821 Doug Mataconis Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:30:30 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=6983#comment-69821 No, he says he’s going to address the federalism issue in the followup

Different issue

]]> By: Roderick http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/10/22/is-an-individual-health-insurance-mandate-constitutional/#comment-69819 Roderick Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:09:45 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=6983#comment-69819 dorf says he’s going to address the art. sec 8 question in a followup column

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