My 28 year old son just found out that his pacemaker battery has about 3 months of life left. The pacemaker was implanted in 1997. He is unemployed. The new battery will cost $4,000. The current game plan is to sell his vehicle to raise the money in time.
The "rationing" here is what the government will pay. I didn't see any limitations on what a private individual or insurance carrier can pay.
Sodomy and its diseases are politically correct. Living past your working years isn't.
“The “rationing” here is what the government will pay. I didn’t see any limitations on what a private individual or insurance carrier can pay.”
As I read the article, what it says about what’s in the bill, it says the government will restrict doctors about what they can prescribe, period, it didn’t say anything about who pays for it. This is worse than Hillary care.
You write “The “rationing” here is what the government will pay. I didn’t see any limitations on what a private individual or insurance carrier can pay.”
I don’t know about that — the article says “He’s also called for a “federal health board” modeled on the Federal Reserve to rate medical products and create central controls on access.” It sounds like the government might make it illegal to manufacture them.
Not in Round One. But at some point soon, the deadbeats, welfare queens, and every tree-hugging leftest in line for a government handout will complain that private individuals and private insurance have better coverage and that's not fair, and they will demand equality, and the government will then prohibit people from buying better health care than the government allows in the medicaid system.