The slacker mandate is ridiculous, but the worst is mandatory coverage for pre-existing conditions. That’s not insurance, it’s welfare.
Portability, yes, but pre-existing conditions, no.
The "slacker mandate" under ObamaCare -- which requires employer-based health care plans to cover adult children of their employees up to the age of 26 -- is not intended to actually provide health care to these people to help them pay their medical expenses.
The whole purpose of this provision is to inflate the pools of insured people with large numbers of young people who will have exorbitant insurance premiums paid for them but will rarely incur any major medical expenses.
In other words, the "slacker mandate" isn't intended to benefit the "slackers" at all. It's intended to benefit the older people in these insurance plans whose premiums would be even higher without all these younger people in the plans.
The purpose of this was to keep the brain dead kids voting Dem. If the dummies had to pay for Obamacare they’d have woken up sooner. Coupled with the massive college debt, the kids would have started to vote Republican before the normal age of 30. This pacified them.
The slacker mandate and the requirement that the insurance companies accept pre-existing conditions. That provision alone will keep the cost of health insurance in the stratosphere. I fear Trump is going for single payer. He indicated at one point that he supported that. Not completely excising obamacare will render his presidency economically a did. His non medical economic policies may well bring a lot more employment and higher incomes but all that extra earned money will go to medicine because the bits and pieces of o-care he seems to want to keep will suck all that extra income away.
That actually worked out well for us.
My daughters are in grad school and it’s cheaper for everyone if they remained on our insurance instead of getting their own. It helped them tremendously when they wre ona really tight budget.
That’s the ONE AND ONLY provision of obamacare that I did not have any problem with.
But now that they are out on their own, gainfully employed by employers who have their own healthcare plans, they are OFF!
The fault isn’t really obamacare, but parents who let their kids mooch off them and don’t get the kids off their (raised to be) lazy butts and out working for a living.
“Who pays for this unfunded government mandate?”
The forgotten man
slacker mandate, eh? seems everybody wants to be adults when it comes to sex and booze, but personal responsibility? no way!
Michelle, just asking....
would this prove that those who made the decision 50 plus years ago never to have children were foreseeing the future of our government? Snowflakes melt and with ‘global warming’ they melt more rapidly.
“Once the feds hand out a sugary piece of cradle-to-grave entitlement candy, it’s almost impossible to snatch it back.”
This is why we need to pass an amendment so that it would require a 2/3 majority to pass any law that would result in money flowing from the government treasury to individual citizens (besides tax refunds).
DEA shortage of pain meds
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/4/13166594/dea-opioid-epidemic-manufacturer-2017-substance-
New DEA rules place more restrictions on popular painkillers
http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/new-dea-rules-place-more-restrictions- on-popular-painkillers/
Pain Management
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/1/5/the-cdc-and-profit-driven- drug-testing
You know what federal employees get? Choice. Lots and LOTS of choice. Check it out...
https://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/healthcare/
Many employer plans cover full-time students until they're 23, even 25 years-old anyway. While I'm not necessarily an advocate for it, it's a small cost to get a much bigger gain. Insurance for most people in the 18-26 year-old range is relatively cheap; they're among the healthiest demographics, and most are easily insurable.