fwiw I bought insurance for a car I bought in Quebec and it was from a company, but the insurer was ultimately Quebec. I got into the nitty-gritty of that since my dog had an at-fault accident with the car in Chevy Chase MD. That was fun ;)
Back on topic, I considered buying a car in Ontario at looked at insurance, finding much the same arrangement. (But since I had run into a huge hassle at the American border with the Quebec car a few years earlier, I decided not to go there again. You know. "If you're a US resident why do you have Quebec tags on your car?" "In Montreal for the summer? How? Do you have a job? What kind of job? Please park your car and go discuss this with the supervisor inside the building. Take the kids and their birth certificates inside with you." Yadda yadda. They get bored on that border....I was legal as could be, but the closest thing to non-routine they had seen in north Vermont for a while I guess.) On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Larry Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It won't. What you mention is pure misinformation. > > Insurance companies will still provide health insurance, that is the basis > for the reform. Even it it went to a full single payer system, insurance > companies would still be providing some form of health insurance. For > instance in Canada the insurance companies moved into other coverage areas, > dental care, supplemental insurance and travel health care insurance, just > to name a few. > > As an aside, in the more "socialist" provinces of Manitoba and > Saskatchewan, that have public auto insurance (think single payer auto > insurance), the companies that previously provided auto insurance did the > same. None of the insurance sales people lost their jobs. They just kept on > being independent insurance agents, selling MPIC or SPIC auto insurance. BTW > the car insurance rates for both these provinces are the lowest in North > America. For the 3rd year running the Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation > (the crown corporation that runs auto insurance in Manitoba) cut their rates > and gave all drivers with no insurance demerits a rebate on their insurance > rates. MPIC is still extremely profitable > > >but wait for Obamacare to kick in and that > >will be the end of the private individual policies. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340834 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
