[Vision2020] [corrected] Otter wants health insurance market state-run

[Robert Dickow]

Really? I thought I read somewhere that Idaho drivers were among the worst
in the nation, in such areas as tail-gating (maybe that a joke?), drunk
driving,  traffic fatality  rates, and some other areas. . But let me do a
little more homework on the actual figures here. 

 

Maybe I'm misinterpreting the 'characteristics of Idaho citizen drivers'
part. Maybe Idahoans have lower insurance more because they generally can
only afford cheap old second-hand clunkers, which don't require as much
collision coverage. The vehicles also tend to be broken down and
off-the-road at higher frequencies (you'll see them sitting on peoples'
lawns and in barnyards in the countryside), rendering them statistically
harmless. ;-) My beloved 1985 Volvo sedan is in this category.

 

Bob Dickow, troublemaker

 

Kenneth Marcy wrote:



On 12/12/2012 8:50 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:

Tell us about it, Mr. Marcy, when you are diagnosed with cancer at 75 years
old and browsing the health insurance "marketplace" for an insurer whose
premiums you can 

<snip>.at least some individuals are sufficiently interested in the benefits
of procuring higher levels of policy protection, if not perfection, than
might otherwise be available from national, less flexible, insurance
regulations.  Idaho has some of the lowest automobile insurance rates in the
nation as a result of characteristics of Idaho citizen drivers.  It well may
be that analogous lower health care insurance rates might be available were
Idahoans able .</snip>


Ken

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