Posted on 08/12/2018 10:58:23 PM PDT by Kaslin
The proposed fixes in the article all presuppose that government is the solution. If you believe that I’ve got some lovely property to sell you.
The Demagogic Party is going to need health care after the beating to their asses they are going to receive in November. Thanks Kaslin.
More than one way to skin a government program.
LOL! YES!
It's lucky for them that the free market has led to the proliferation of drive-through pharmacies, and a wider variety and choice for psych meds.
Bump
You may think that's delusional Democrat/Marxist ideology at work, but it's not. In fact, you find plenty of folks right here on Free Republic who believe it with almost religious zeal.
But John Kasich disagrees
our health care system is predicated on the doctors’ beliefs that they are entitled to 6 figure incomes, not anything else.
Baloney. Doctors go through a more rigorous education and training process than almost any other profession in America. How much do you think they should be paid for that?
bttt
You are right about that. They say they have “earned it”. Or, some other ridiculous excuse. And to pay their other bills also via their monthly check. These are not 70 and 80 year olds either.. they will consume from your children’s table for decades.
Six figures means one hundred thousand dollars a year or more. A good welder earns more than that. In some areas you can’t even survive on a hundred grand a year.
No, the proposed fixes all presuppose that good legislation and rule-making are helpful to a problem caused by bad legislation and rule-making. The fixes allow the market’s responses to the problems of Obamacare to expand.
Government is created by legislation and rule-making; legislation and rule-making that repeal government is not the same as government.
ObamaCare™ took a huge chunk out of my paycheck. It took even more last year. I sure hope next year is better at health care renewal time.
The introduced and now in affect nationwide, removes Obamacare mandates and helps it die a cruel death. Since the Congress could not get their heads together to introduce MORE government on top of Obamacare, Senator Paul's solution adds being able to purchase across State lines, removing prior laws that forbade this. It also rings the death knell even more for a failed Government program, Obamacare.
I think we got a mark in the win column
1. The elimination of annual and lifetime caps on coverage.
2. The prohibition against denying care for pre-existing conditions or pricing coverage for these conditions accordingly.
3. The establishment of minimum standards of coverage by the government.
The individual mandate was really just a tiny part of ObamaCare, and it played no role in the issues that are really driving health insurance costs up. The GOP has worn out its arms giving itself pats on the back for eliminating the ObamaCare penalty because they can't bring themselves to admit that they are incapable of dealing with the REAL issues here.
You used to get the best and brightest wanting to be doctors because you could make a good living and help people. They were and some still are a special breed.
Now doctors are reduced to being employees of insurance companies and forced to hire accountants and administrators just to get paid. Government in action.
Look at Canada and the UK. They import “doctors” from shithole countries who aren’t qualified to change a cat box.
#2 is the biggest fraud perpetrated by government against the medical insurance industry. Prohibiting insurance companies to deny care for pre-existing conditions (or institute a waiting period), or price the applicant’s coverage accordingly, invites gaming of the system. One can have no coverage (or minimal coverage) and then, upon receiving a catastrophic diagnosis, decide to purchase a plan to cover that condition - because the insurance company is prohibited from denying the application (or again, pricing the plan accordingly or instituting a waiting period).
If a similar law was imposed on the car insurance industry, then someone with no insurance could have an accident, then call up and purchase insurance to cover the damages. It’s insane.
Why is that law there? Why for “compassion”, of course.
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