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As an industry insider myself, I can attest that what Mr Potter says is true. In my experience is as an underwriter for individual health policies, I decided whether the policy would be issued, and if so, how it would be issued. From the first week of my employment, I had conflicted feelings about what I was doing. How could I exclude coverage for asthma for a child? How could I decline people for individual policies based on pre-existing conditions? Where would they go for coverage? Either they had to have the resources to pay for a state-mandated plan which is very expensive, or they would go with no insurance.

Remember America, not all of us are blessed to have group insurance through our employers !!!! There are many people who do not have this benefit and are forced to look for their own health insurance. These are the people that I saw through my work and I had to detach myself for years in my job by various rationalizations......I can't change the system.........I need a job with benefits......etc. I decided that I had sold my soul to the devil and had to get back to working in nonprofit health care which I had done for 25 years prior to the corporate insurance stint I had done.

Mr Powell, do you have a job for me?