Medical Insurance
Posted at 9:58am on May 27, 2008 President Bush and Speaker Pelosi take a swipe at free market medicine
The Genetic Non-Discrimination Act misses the point of insurance
By Neil Stevens
Via Slashdot Science (so it's a week old), President Bush signed the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act into law on the 22nd. This bill would prevent the proper assessment of medical risk based on improving medical technology, increasing the costs of medical insurance for all Americans, which of course shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what insurance is.
To be fair, though, there was only one vote in the House against this bill, and none at all in the Senate, so this silliness extends beyond the Presidency and to our entire caucuses in the Congress.
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Posted at 2:52am on Dec. 28, 2007 Court rejects San Francisco insurance mandates; Governor's plan next?
By Neil Stevens
US District Judge Jeffrey White threw out part of a San Francisco law this afternoon, one that required employers to provide or pay for medical insurance for employers. White ruled that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) preempts and prohibits the states from imposing such requirements on employers.
Ordinarily I wouldn't care, because San Francisco is such a freaky place, and if a conservative worried about every bad bill passed there, he'd never sleep. But this is important because Governor Schwarzenegger's plan for all of California includes a similar requirement, and thus could also be illegal under ERISA.
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