Good time to bug your MP

[Robinho]

I am still undecided about the extent of regulations, no subsidies though.

[sasguru]

I am still undecided about the extent of regulations, no subsidies though.

At least you've got some imagination, making the leap from the insignificant loser you are and will forever be to a key player in the economic scene.

[Mich the Tester]

I am still undecided about the extent of regulations

Ah, I see. Is that another one for the list of 'transitional problems'?

[speling bee]

I am still undecided about the extent of regulations, no subsidies though.

This baby born with renal failure, let's call him Benjy for short, will grow up safe in the care of publicly funded insurance. But then at 18, Benjy will approach an insurer to seek insurance for his ongoing dialysis and related care needs. The insurer will patiently and regretfully explain that insurance is for risk, and that there is a 100% chance that Benjy will be needing haemodialysis (if that is his modality) three times per week for the rest of his life unless he has a transplant which will itself have significant cost implications and the likelihood of eventual graft failure and the need for further dialysis or transplantation.

So Benjy won't get insured and will die within a week or two of his 18th birthday. Of course his loving parents may have saved up every penny they can for 18 years to pay for his dialysis, but their savings will not last forever at 20k p.a. And then Benjy will die.

[Robinho]

Benjy could get a job and live with his parents and pay for it himself.

Charity could step in and cover the costs.

Alternatively regulations could be set up to ensure companies can only discriminate on lifestyle choices and not innate illnesses. As i have already alluded, the extent of regulations is an area i am still undecided on.

[d000hg]

Oh jeez, this is still going on?

[sasguru]

Oh jeez, this is still going on?

Yes Robby has the tenacity that can only be shown by a completely thick, bone-headed, moron.
I'm beginning to feel sorry for him now, Speling Bee has completely destroyed any shred of credibility he had left.

[speling bee]

Benjy could get a job and live with his parents and pay for it himself.

But Benjy was born with Down's syndrome (the kind with significant intellectual impariment) and unable to find a job. What now?

Charity could step in and cover the costs.

How certain are you that it would?

Alternatively regulations could be set up to ensure companies can only discriminate on lifestyle choices and not innate illnesses. As i have already alluded, the extent of regulations is an area i am still undecided on.

Then it is not insurance if it is to cover an existing condition. If insurers all have to cover existing conditions, then effectively you are forcing the fit to pay to cover others. This is a stealth tax. Won't people avoid it by using insurers based in offshore tax havens, that are not covered by these regulations? Shouldn't you fund the additional costs of covering people who at 18 have a pre-existing condition or a pre-disposition to a condition via the Land Tax?

[speling bee]

Yes Robby has the tenacity that can only be shown by a completely thick, bone-headed, moron.
I'm beginning to feel sorry for him now, Speling Bee has completely destroyed any shred of credibility he had left.

And I'm in favour of a land tax.

[sasguru]

He seems to have slunk off back to his bedsit, tail between his legs.
Perhaps the curtains won't be so crusty this evening.
But idiocy of that level is not easily deterred.
He'll be back to keep digging later