Health Reform: Let's Lower—Not Raise—Young Adults' Premiums

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There's still no reason that a public plan couldn't compete with these private insurers. If the premiums for privates are cheaper for young people, they'll undoubtably chose those plans over the public option.

Brian of OR 4:30PM August 26, 2009

disingenuous

You're Terrible of IL 4:27PM August 26, 2009

Here comes the doctor turned corporate shill AGAIN to see if she can scare you out of real choice---a government option. She ought to know better, but, if she doesn't, you should.
Any individual policy that actually sells for $500 a year is going to exclude everything that an actuary thinks might cost more than $300. How much "preventive" plus "catastophic" do you think you get for that? How much AFLAC-duck-like marketing do you want to hear directed at the 20-somethings?
Dr. Healy believes we readers of USNWR are as gullible as that town-hall crowd. Why doesn't USNWR either stick her on medical issues or dump her? This blatant lobbying for corporations --week after week, no less--is sickening.

Muser of NM 4:16PM August 26, 2009

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Bernadine Healy, M.D., U.S.News & World Report's health editor and author of the magazine's On Health column, is the former head of the National Institutes of Health, the American Red Cross, and the College of Medicine and Public Health at Ohio State University. A cardiologist and author of two books, she spent more than 25 years practicing medicine. In this blog, she covers matters close to her heart, including cardiovascular disease and other important aspects of personal health and health policy.