Wednesday, May 1, 2013

What would you think of making prescription contacts and lenses mandatory in insurance?

To continue the discussion on insurance and birth control, but to bring it away from the inflammatory topic of men's health and women's health, for a moment.

In most insurance plans, a vision plan is optional, so that people with good eyesight who don't have to go in for routine eye exams and get glasses and contacts covered don't have to pay for a part of their insurance that they never use.

Suppose the ~$40/mo.charge for covering eye exams and corrective lenses was no longer optional.Do you think this would be fair to people with 20/20 eyesight?
Added (1). BQ: How about family plans? What if, instead of having cheaper plans available to people who only want to cover themselves, and more expensive plans available to people who want their spouse and children to be covered, everyone just paid the same price (slightly lower than the family price, much higher than the individual price), and everyone got family coverage, whether you're actually covering a family or not? Would that be fair to single, childless people?

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