Health Care Challenge to DU

[mrfocus]

Hi all,

I thought of the following challenge and was wondering if other DUers could pitch in?

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Challenge Topic: McCain in the private health insurance market
Description:
Imagine John McCain wanted to obtain coverage to equal that of his government-subsidized health insurance (http://www.opm.gov/insure/health/) in the open market. Can we (collectively) do the following things?
- Build a uniform description of John McCain's health based on publicly available data (including history of cancer, etc.)
- Submit this description for a quote to major health insurance providers with the implicit requirement to match the FEHB coverage
- Compare the resulting numbers side by side (I am thinking they would be 5x to 10x larger than FEHB)
- Ask John McCain why he thinks private individual health insurance is more cost effective than "government health care"
- Optionally, also compare and contrast with Medicare coverage and costs

Thoughts?

[KT2000]

1. Good idea!

:kick:

[Vinca]

2. I don't think it will work because there is no insurance company

I know of who would even offer coverage to a cancer patient at any price.

[Cleita]

3. John McCain technically as a private citizen would be on Medicare, a government

program, that does cover all those things that private insurance wouldn't cover for him. However his party is doing everything they can to undermine Medicare and destroy it.