Comments on: Half crocked http://www.markingtime.org/blog/2006/12/16/half-crocked/ Mark Time. Gather My Thoughts. Talk to myself. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:40:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Eagle http://www.markingtime.org/blog/2006/12/16/half-crocked/#comment-12062 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:03:24 +0000 http://www.markingtime.org/blog/2006/12/16/half-crocked/#comment-12062 I was listening to a little history lesson on the VHI the other day. Apparently, at some point in the 80s the VHI had a tidy little sum set aside for their aging client base and it was taken and used by the government to meet other demands. When I read what Bertie had said the other day I thought it was possibly the most outrageous load of garbage he's uttered since he became Taoiseach. He's talking out of his hat and he knows it. What this whole argument boils down to is that BUPA didn't make enough of an effort to convince old people to abandon the VHI for BUPA. I'm waiting for the government to force ESAT/BT out of the market for not making enough of an effort to convince old people to abandon Eircom. The government is punishing BUPA and BUPA's customers for the fact that there was no proper health insurance market in Ireland until the mid-1990s. This problem - if it is that severe for VHI - should be solved by the taxpayer, not BUPA and their clients. I was listening to a little history lesson on the VHI the other day. Apparently, at some point in the 80s the VHI had a tidy little sum set aside for their aging client base and it was taken and used by the government to meet other demands.

When I read what Bertie had said the other day I thought it was possibly the most outrageous load of garbage he’s uttered since he became Taoiseach. He’s talking out of his hat and he knows it.

What this whole argument boils down to is that BUPA didn’t make enough of an effort to convince old people to abandon the VHI for BUPA. I’m waiting for the government to force ESAT/BT out of the market for not making enough of an effort to convince old people to abandon Eircom. The government is punishing BUPA and BUPA’s customers for the fact that there was no proper health insurance market in Ireland until the mid-1990s. This problem - if it is that severe for VHI - should be solved by the taxpayer, not BUPA and their clients.

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