Medical care

There's a lot I don't understand about insurance. But this has me completely baffled:

Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Tuesday the state is prepared to embrace an insurance-based health-care pilot program for the New Orleans area, but only if the federal government provides enough money to make it work.

Blanco said she thinks it would cost about $300 million more a year than the state currently spends on health care to cover the uninsured in the New Orleans area with the government-subsidized private policies federal authorities are pushing for.

The insurance industry must have a great lobby. I can't see why we would cover the presently uninsured by subsidizing medical insurance, and creating another layer of profit.

Makes a lot more sense to me to stick with the Charity Hospital system we had in place. Yeah, the buildings were ugly, but the care was good.

How is putting medical insurance into the equation going to make the care better or improve the buildings?

My opinion, it won't. It'll just make some insurance execs richer.