Thank God. Obamacare has destroyed my affordable, good care and given it to someone else who didn’t work for it.
As long as we wean out the term “Obamacare”, I’m all for it. I don’t think anyone thought it would be an “instantaneous” change to the “A”CA anyway.
NO! Kill it fast and hard. Delineate a change point. I have one set of friends who’s rates double in January. I have many others losing their provider completely. This is in January! Moron physician/politicians think they know best. They almost never do.
Does Barrasso know it was is open enrollment for OCare right now?
I think young people should get their own plan, don’t you? They are supposed to be adults after they hit 18
The GOP is EXEMPT and created RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE.
They NEVER have wanted it removed.
THEY are EXEMPT.
I don’t like it. They need to just rip-off the Band Aid and move on. They are trying to sucker Democrats into casting a tough vote before the 2018 midterms. That is being just too-cute by half.
Obamacare premiums in Nevada skyrocketed. If you’re over 30, you’re basically without insurance because it becomes a choice between food & paying your mortgage, or pay for the insurance and starve/foreclosure.
I’m paying cash for my prescriptions. I cannot afford to see my specialist, or any specialist or lab for that matter. We make too much money to go on Medicaid, not old enough for Medicare. I’m at my wit’s end with all this.
We used to be able to get short term medical insurance that would cover the basics, but prices for those plans skyrocketed as well plus you get the tax fines on top of it.
Yeah. “Wean” us off of it with another couple of years of 50% premium increases.
A two week notice should suffice.
I think there is a matter of timing involving new law and contracts.
The contracts for health insurance must be inplace before the Trump team takes hold and can cancel Obamacare. So, contracts for health care in effect at the time the cancellation law is signed by the president will remain in effect for the rest of the year 2017.
The remedial health care program to replace Obamacare will thus go in to effect beginning 2018. In the event the remedial bill can not be passed quickly it may be necessary to provide some extension
Perhaps the most important reform is to make it easy for physicians and nurses to set up private practices, alone or in a small group.
Coming about in January, there is going to be one last major poison pill inserted by Obama, which is to take about 20% of the money that used to be paid to individual doctors and groups of under 20 doctors for medicare; and to give a 20% bonus to large providers, like HMOs.
This will be the final straw for many of these smaller groups who are barely getting by right now. “Robbing Peter to pay Paul”.
Hopefully as soon as he gets into office President Trump will cancel this monstrosity. He has already forced a legion of physicians out of medicine, a huge problem for all.
A great way to fix this is in two ways.
First of all, individual and small groups of physicians who accept medicare, medicaid and insurance, need to be treated fairly, though there really is no future in these payments.
Second, physicians need to be encouraged to open practices that DO NOT take *either* medicare and medicaid, or insurance, for routine medical care. Strictly cash. Physicians who have moved to this model have drastically reduced their expenses, enough to charge only HALF was doctors taking government money and insurance must charge.
The effect of doing this will not only mean substantially lower costs for medical care for all; as dramatic as when urgent care took over much the burden from hospital emergency rooms.
Serious privatization, as far away from government as possible.
Also, as an added note: kill the malevolent HIPAA and HITECH acts. The are expensive scams that break the doctor patient privilege and give open access to medical records to at least 37 scurrilous government agencies, any time they want.
Ultimately the issue as always will be the “pre-existing conditions.” Any condition, ever, can be defined as a means to deny you coverage.
Honest, good, responsible insurance companies would differentiate between those conditions that are truly “big time,” on going, with major bills, and non-recurring “pre-existing conditions.”
For example, I know two women diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis . . . over 20 years ago. NEITHER is in any noticeable way incapacitated. Both are physically very active (far more than most men I know). Neither requires ANY serious long-term meds (which are outrageously expensive because the prices are gouged to support the subsidized/price controlled European nations’s drugs).
Both of these women would be denied coverage. That isn’t right. On the other hand, neither is it right for someone with three heart attacks and cancer that is in remission to expect to get a cheap policy.
I don’t know what the solution is, except to have a Medicaid catastrophic plan for the latter, and then allow insurance companies to cross state lines with their health policies. But I also understand a policy cannot “travel” from job to job because the pools change. Perhaps for now simply blowing up Obamacare is the best first start because markets WILL sort SOME of it out.
“Talking about ideas to...”? What? Haven’t they had years to plan this? Whatever is to be done should be passed in Trump’s first 100 days. No futzing around.
The very first O-care reform needs to be sunsetting the law in its’ entirety. Set a date in concrete that the law will completely be off the books.