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What I'm getting at is that you'll have to put a price on everything. And you expect someone in congress or some special new czar will be able to determine the true cost of what it should be in the market place? They'll use straight statistics.
I refuse to believe that's the most efficient way to operate.
Also note that most employer-sponsored coverage does not have a pre-existing conditions clause. I have seen one that says you cannot have that specific condition covered by the new plan for the first year you are on it. If you lose your job, you get COBRA for 18 months, still no denial of coverage, and when you get back on your feet with another job, you just swing on over to that policy and again, no lapse in coverage.
Far from being a death panel.
ETA: Obamacare gets that label b/c what the seniors going to do after Medicare denies them their heart transplant (or whatever)? There is literally nowhere else they can go for coverage.
Big assumtions you are taking.
You assume everyone can afford to pay for Cobra.
You assume everyone will get another job with health insurance coverage before their Cobra runs out.
If you are one of these people, well then.....too bad for you. Once your insurance lapses ...... you're toast.
I said NO b/c the poll is stupid and biased. I don't support supposedly making health insurance policies easier to understand if it means we have to put up with the rest of that sham Obamacare.
Honestly, an insurance policy is not hard to read.... We don't need more gov't regulations to dumb things down.
andrea is absolutely right. what good is it to make insurance policies easier to understand when they are much more expensive, and harder to use? i am all for making things easier for people to understand, but that isnt the problem.
If you can't find another job in 18 months, you're a very sad human being.
You might find another job, but it might not provide insurance. Just the other day Isaw an article about how hard it is for the unemployed to get jobs; employers would rather higher people who are already employed.
Just out of curiosity, andrea, do you and your spouse provide insurance for the employees at your restaurant?
You're kidding?......Right?........You really must be kidding. I've had a quintuple heart bypass, a carotid endo-artorectomy and 4 arthorectomies all under private insurance and you tell me that the policy and what it covers is easy to understand for the average patient?
You...have....got.....to......be.....joking.
I'm sure they read credit card agreements for fun too...
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I think everyone here but you knows we are talking about outrageously expensive, life threatening conditions. 
