Thank you for your editorial on MEMIC as a successful insurance model (“Our View: Workers’ comp history shows that divided government can work,” March 24).
As an employer, I can attest to its success. Because it is a mutual company, all of its members benefit — in healthier workplaces, reduced rates and year-end rebates — when injury claims decline. It’s a simple formula — the incentives directly correlate to the benefits.
Perhaps our current legislators, divided as they are, could apply this model now to health insurance.
If they were to create a similar state-regulated, private mutual health insurance corporation that could bring down health insurance rates and foster a healthier population — as has happened in the workers’ comp domain — they’d be celebrated as heroes.
Peter Simmons is a resident of Brunswick.
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