House Proceeding 06-03-09 on Jun 3rd, 2009 :: 2:52:05 to 2:53:00
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Joe Courtney: small businesses, eight, 20, 1 10, let them combine together and purchase policies. that's a basic right of free enterprise to be able to do that. i'm going to toss out another idea. a lot of this thinking is common sense. it's not out of the box thinking, it's common sense. when i was in the florida legislature a number of years ago, we were looking at ways to fix the health system because

2:52:05 to 2:53:00( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Joe Courtney

2:52:11 to 2:52:31( Edit History Discussion )

Joe Courtney: despite your good efforts and others, nothing was really happening of any major consequence. we said, what if we allow people to purchase into the state of florida health insurance plan? let's use the federal system. we have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of peoe in our federal system. members of congress and everybody else gets to buy

2:52:32 to 2:52:53( Edit History Discussion )

Joe Courtney: this. it's a typical plan. the government pays a piece of the premium, we pay a piece of the premium. what if we allow people to buy into the federal plan. not on the federal government's dime, no subsidy whatsoever. whatever cost is, administration or anything else, purchase into that. we did that with the -- we

2:52:54 to 2:53:01( Edit History Discussion )

Joe Courtney: looked into that with the state of florida plan. we found if you take a small business trying to buy a policy, the same policy, apples