HMOs have long been infamous for offloading the neediest patients, creating competitive pricing by making sure that they only had the healthiest patient pools. This, of course, meant that the economies of scale that HMOs were supposed to provide for the neediest patients, or, more importantly, those patients that started out healthy but deteriorated over time in a complex medical process known as aging, instead kicked them to the curb when they really needed the help.
What do those people do? Well, they can subscribe to other, far more expensive plans. Or they can become wards of the state. i.e. you and I foot the bill.
But I digress. It now appears that Sprint is doing much the same thing. I suppose the major difference is that cell service, unlike healthcare, is not a public good. Still, I wonder if the is the harbinger of a secondary market of expensive cell service for those black listed by the big boys.
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