Speakeasy forum: Will National Healthcare Reduce Automobile Insurance Costs?

those with insured medical coverage for their vehicles could deduct that from their required medical care tax each year, leaving those who don't drive to pay the full medical amount direct to the government.

there's too many health insurance overlaps costing us billions more than necessary. I think any country with national health care should ban all requirements for health care from employers, automobile drivers, etc. The only insurance available might be to cover anything ABOVE what the govt is already providing and in a true national health care system even that should be forbidden. One problem are insurance companies already fighting over which policy covers what when it comes to healthcare, especially if an automobile accident or injury on private property occurs. Either get rid of all health insurance where there is national healthcare, or get rid of the national healthcare.

anyway.

It's a requirement each individual buy insurance from somewhere, with aid for those considered too poor to buy at market rates.

Even if you have a government option, it's not a national healthcare program unless everyone pays into a government insurance and gets benefits from that program.

mine pays my cost in an accident, your's pays yours.

After that, they can fight out legally which owes which. We buy insurance, it should cover us, not depend on the other guy.

Fault may still influence cost of insurance, since mine shouldn't go up if you run a red light and hit me, but I shouldn't have to sue you and your insurance to get my cost covered.

Interesting, hadn't heard that claim before.

And while you're knocking unions, I wonder how that will affect union negotiated benefits that supposely are already agreed on for xx years?

Our is pretty good, I admit, but it ain't the golden plan executives have, in fact, all salary have bettter than the hourly union members in our case.

This year our deductible went up another $100, the maximum out of pocket annually went up another $850, drug copayment roughly doubled, premiums went up, other changes here and there.

They also forced many out of the retirement plan and into 401K only, who stayed in the pension plan was based on age and service time combined formulas.

We have good insurance, but doubt it's as good as you assume.