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Old 08-19-2016, 06:05 AM
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My take on all this is that the Villages Health Care System is a for-profit operation run by the Developer. If the Developer feels that he needs to accept only United Health Advantage patients to maximize profits, fine. The Developer certainly has the right to do so, and there are alternative choices for the consumer.

However, my criticism of the whole operation is the way the Developer's Daily Sun, from the very beginning, has characterized the Villages Health Care System in advertisements disguised as news. The Daily Sun has constantly described the system as some kind of Marcus Welby, altruistic effort to make The Villages "Florida's Healthiest Home Town"-- rather than accurately describing the System for what it is: another Developer for-profit business.

By the way, I think that the System is probably the wave of the future-- for better or worse. I just would like to see a little truth in advertising on the part of the Developer and the Daily Sun.
Its exactly my mind set. ACA was a disaster before the ink dried because it ignored underwriting as Washington also did with the housing market. I was an insurance guy and did my share of criticisms to my superiors but underwriting as to insurance banks and mortgage companies is critical

The only way ACA can survive is to have everyone insured. the authors of ACA knew this and planned on it because they really wanted a one payer situation (ie government control of 1/6th the economy. I am a fierce opponent of central planning.