Only if you are white and/or upper middle class minorities. I have not seen an illegal yet that has been asked for insurance or payment.
Just wait until the next stage of implementation hits in January 2015 (after the elections, of course) and people get kicked out of their employer-provided programs and on to Obamacare. The nightmare is just getting started.
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To be clear: They never intended to “fix” healthcare.
They mean to destroy it.
Once it is dead, they assume the populace will clamor for a government solution, and they can clear the dead and bankrupt insurers out of the way and implement healthcare the way the statists want it implemented.
State (Federally)controlled Single Payer.
Never mind that before that happens, tens or hundreds of thousands of people will lose their jobs, hospitals are going to go bankrupt, and patient care is going to go right down the toilet.
To them, it is the price of making omelettes. The eggs that will have to be broken.
Right, unexpected. /s
They need to publish their prices then. Furthermore, adding to the gifts of obastard care... the insurance carriers are not negotiating or are prohibited from negotiating affordable in network contract rates. This used to be one reason for having insurance... you got better rates than if you paid out of pocket.
NOW, the carriers are incentivized to not negotiate rates at all since their profit margin is a PERCENTAGE of COST. The higher the cost the more money they retain. Pay attention to this people. It is brutal since the cost of procedures within the deductible and the uncovered portion of costs after the deductible BOTH go up. YOU ARE GETTING HAMMERED!
SUFFER ME TO EMPHASIZE THIS POINT.
NOW, the carriers are incentivized to not negotiate rates at all since their profit margin is a PERCENTAGE of COST. The higher the cost the more money they retain. Pay attention to this people. It is brutal since the cost of procedures within the deductible and the uncovered portion of costs after the deductible BOTH go up. YOU ARE GETTING HAMMERED!
Dumbed down Americans in for the free stuff failed to learn the meaning of deductible and the math re $2500-$5000 deductibles.d
Oh well, if they are in line for hours or days for their newest smart phone, they can pay for their health care deductibles. Or can they?
People are unaware of the high deductible. These people are too damn stupid to understand how insurance works. They’re all just like the woman who said Obama was going to make her house payments and fill her tank with gas. She represents most of the people who voted for Obama.
i was required to pay my portion of a cardio scan a few years ago. when they asked me how much of the bill I wanted to pay I told them “all of it”. I left the hospital given potentially fatal (incorrect) advice about what activities I could safely engage in.
a couple of months later they sent me a bill requesting additional payment for the scan. I called them up and told them I had already paid for “all of it”. the finance lady shuffled some papers for a while then came back on line and told me to disregard the bill.
It's incredible, but I suspect there are many people out there who are not financially sophisticated enough to know how insurance works.
Delicious irony though in that the supporters of this claptrap were all under the delusion that health care was gonna be FREE.
Not gonna go well for Barry and the boys when enough of them get smacked with up-front charges.
I hope every Obama supporter who chose a subsidized ObamaCare plan gets bitten by this. These parasites are no different from mosquitoes - a good swat is what they need now and them.
But the GOP-e solution is not repeal; it’s “fixing” 0bamafraud.
We have had to pay something up front since 2010 at our local hospital. If you pay in full, they discount the amount, so we try to pay it all. Not always possible, but we do what we can do.