Posted on 11/29/2016 8:43:37 AM PST by Olog-hai
As a congressman, Georgia Republican Tom Price has been thwarted in his hopes to repeal the Affordable Care Act and transform Medicare into a voucher-like program for future participants.
Now, as President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Price will wield great power as Trump’s top health policy adviser and preside, Republicans hope, over the dismantlement of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.
Price, 62, carries himself with a surgeon’s confidence and possesses deep knowledge of health policy. He is one of very few Republicans to actually propose a replacement for Obamacare, and promises to be a staunchly conservative voice in Trump's Cabinet. …
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Yeah, but I’m sure he once visited Washington DC, so that makes him a RINO from the swamp!!!!!
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Good move, shows Trump is serious about getting rid of Obamacare.
Price is OK
He comes from a solid GOP district in GA. He is not a bad guy and he is an MD. I think this a good pick.
Secretary Price has a mammoth responsibility. He must take a meat ax to this communist health care and reinstall free market Insurance and free market selection of health services. We must protect the weak and poor in our nation beyond just going to the ER. This will mean a safety net service if all else fails. I support a government option like the VA. My Dad had the VA . He had issues over 70. I reminded him that he had it. He Said “ I worked my whole life to not go there and I have my own insurance, Thank you. “ If you have a government option with salaried doctors and adequate facilities with bulk purchasing power on medical drugs and supplies— we have that safety net but if you can afford more— POWER to you. The free market WILL NOT CARRY PRE EXISTING CONDITIONS !! They go bankrupt!!
if you have preexisting conditions, and aren’t wealthy, them you should just die quietly without complaining, as the insurance industry find your continued existence unprofitable.
No, the people who pay for insurance should just be happy subsidize those who would rather spend their money on other shit and not carry insurance.
That’s the Socialist way.
This is going to be a real problem. One of the things the Healthcare Bill did was tap into, and exhaust, SS and medicare funds to keep itself solvent. The medicare funds right now are solvent till 2028 and after that will cover 87% of costs. The only way to keep it at 100% is to raise the current tax levels. Obama and the libs lied about the healthcare bill saying it would cover its costs. that’s why it needs to go. It is a burden to the taxpayers based upon being another welfare program in disguise.
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No — you just go government option. You will pay a premium and co pays like everybody else but you wont die in the street. Trump is mart enough to know that if we allow people to die the communists will persuade the people to hate us.
Each part of the medical sector has two/three sides, a supplier side and consumer/payer side(s).
Changes that only make the consumer/payer side market-based will fail patients badly.
Standard Medicare generally works well for patients.
I’m very familiar with Medicare since my mother and aunt got care under it.
Yes, Medicare will have financial problems in the future that have to be dealt with.
However, going from a system with a 3% overhead to a system of private insurers that needs a overhead of about 10% will reduce the money providers get from the federal government by 7%.
Guess who gets to make up that 7% - yes, you as a patient.
Look at about $700/year more on average disappearing from your retirement income.
Instead of going to an insurance company-based system which is failing badly, as anybody shopping for coverage on the PPACA “Marketplace” knows, we have to get provider (and health insurance/patient) costs down.
This means:
1. breaking up hospitals to create competition
2. letting physician assistants practice independently after three years of work as a PA
3. getting rid of doctor-collected patient co-pays (and office overhead costs)
a. Insurers would pay 100% and bill you for your co-pays
(or debit your HSA for 90% of the co-pay)
b. Medicare co-pays would be taken out of your (and your spouse’s) Social Security (but no more than 10% of any monthly SS payment)
[and if you die, SS will pay the co-pays and your estate won’t, reducing probate costs)
c. doctors might use third-party appointment booking services to get rid of office staff costs entirely
4. getting rid of the EMTALA, so hospitals won’t go broke
5. hospitals would get the right to lien welfare payments
[people need to buy insurance]
6. making it far easier to get a drug into the US market, so drug costs can be less
7. product liability lawsuits involving drugs
would only reimburse insurers for related medical treatment
and could only be brought by insurers
[patients need to buy insurance with drug coverage or use drugs with a long track record of relative safety]
[drugs are sold on a prescription basis simply because they are likely to be dangerous to patients]
It's not the "getting rid of" part that's worrisome. It's the "replacing" part.
So...you want to replace Obamacare with a government run healthcare plan?
Price’s:
Restoring Equity, Saving Coverage, and Undoing Errors Act of 2015 or the RESCUE America’s Health Care Act of 2015
This bill applies only: (1) if the Supreme Court determines that the premium tax credit under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is not applicable to health plans purchased through the federal health insurance exchange, and (2) in states without a state health insurance exchange.
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for individuals with health insurance who are ineligible for federal health care and not enrolled in an employer-subsidized group health plan.
The Department of the Treasury must make payments to health insurers on behalf of taxpayers eligible for the tax credit.
This bill repeals certain provisions of PPACA and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 relating to health insurance, health savings accounts, and health flexible spending accounts. Provisions amended by the repealed provisions are restored.
Any health plan fulfills an individual’s requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage.
Dental plans no longer need to provide pediatric dental benefits to be offered on a health insurance exchange.
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to define individual health pools (IHPs) as nonprofit entities that form health insurance risk pools. IHPs are prohibited from conditioning membership on an individual’s health status and must offer the same coverage to all members. State benefit requirements and restrictions on premium variation do not apply to IHPs.
Health insurers in the individual market must offer coverage to all individuals.
A health insurer may exclude coverage for a preexisting condition or vary premiums based on health status only for individuals who have not had continuous coverage for the last 18 months.
“Medicare” vouchers
Medicare already has Medicare Advantage plans available under it.
What would be the point of insisting on vouchers?
Price’s “H.R.3100 — 114th Congress (2015-2016)”
“Medical Practice Freedom Act of 2015”
“This bill prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services or any state from requiring a health care provider, as a condition of the provider’s licensure, to participate in a health plan or comply with requirements for meaningful use of electronic health records.”
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3100
Medical care is a service. States need to have the power to regulate services, since the federal government doesn’t have the power to regulate services in general.
“So...you want to replace Obamacare with a government run healthcare plan?”
It is possible to have an insurer-managed, government-funded health care plan, which essentially is what Medicare is.
And getting rid of medicare, which if you are under the age of 35 is the real problem.
And getting rid of medicare, which if you are under the age of 35 is the real problem.
I live in Sarasota County, Florida.
Florida is run at the state level by Republicans.
Two organizations have tried to get state permission to builds hospitals and been refused by my Republican-run state.
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