(03-25-2020 03:30 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  If you can not have insurance and then simply pick up coverage when you get sick that's not insurance: that's a bailout.

I was speaking of a different aspect of the issue... that nobody (especially the poor, this is the left's lie about the issue) is currently uninsured. I get what you're saying.

You actually can though as it's just math... but everyone else picks up the cost for you. The poor would always be covered because the government pays it... It's the middle class or even the wealthy who would benefit from this.

(03-25-2020 03:52 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  Or we could have non-profit heath insurance industries like Bismarck countries have. There is zero value added by those companies being for profit. They aren't doing research, they aren't developing drugs, they are literally just profiting off of human suffering.

another thing that sounds good but isn't true, unless you think your nurse is profiting off of your suffering.

That said, here's a list of MAJOR Non-Profit health Insurance Companies. There are plenty of minor ones as well.

Affinity
American Postal Workers Union Health Plans
AmeriHealth Mercy/Independent Blue Cross
Arkansas BlueCross BlueShield
AultCare Health Plans
AvMed, Inc
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota
Blue Cross of Idaho Health Service, Inc.
Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania
Blue Shield of California
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and BlueCross BlueShield of Northeastern New York
Bluegrass Family Health, Inc.
Boston Medical Center HealthNet Plan
Capital Blue Cross
Capital District Physicians Health Plan, Inc.
CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield
CareOregon
CareSource, Inc.
Community Health Group
Community Health Network of Connecticut, Inc. (CHNCT)
Community Health Plan of Washington
Cook Children's Health Plan (CCHP)
EmblemHealth, Inc.
Fallon Community Health Plan
Family Health Partners
Fidelis Care, Inc.
Geisinger Health Plan
Government Employees Health Association (GEHA)
Group Health Cooperative
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.
Hawaii Medical Service Association
Health Alliance Plan of Michigan
Health Care Service Corporation
Health Partners of Philadelphia
Health Plus (PHSP), Inc.
Healthfirst
HealthPartners, Inc.
HealthPlus of Michigan, Inc.
Highmark, Inc.
Hometown Health Plan, Inc.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield
Hudson Health Plan
Independent Health Association, Inc.
Inland Empire Health Plan
Kaiser Permanente
Kern Health Systems, Inc.
Lifetime Healthcare Companies
Maryland Physicians Care (MPC)
McLaren Health Plan
MDWise
Medica Health Plans
Medical Mutual of Ohio
MVP Health Care Preferred Care
Neighborhood Health Plan, Inc.
Paramount Care, Inc. (ProMedica Health System)
Parkland Community Health Plan
Partnership Health Plan of California
Phoenix Health Plan/Abrazo Advantage
Premera, Inc.
Priority Health
Priority Partners
Providence Health Plan
Rocky Mountain Health Plans
SCAN Health Plan
Scott and White Health Plan
Security Health Plan of Wisconsin, Inc.
SelectHealth
Sentara Health Plans, Inc.
Texas Children's Health Plan
The Chartered Health Plan Inc.
The Regence Group
Trustmark Companies
Tufts Associated Health Plans, Inc.
UAW Retiree Medical Benefit Trust
UCare
University Health Care Health Plans
UPMC Health Plan, Inc.
Virginia Premier Health Plan, Inc.
Wellmark, Inc.

You've got David bitching about BCBS becoming a monopoly and you bitching that it's not.