[b4me]

nope

[aimhigh]

Medicare pays doctors 50 cents for a dollar of service. They would close up shop if this happened.

[Graybeard58]

Less gov. interference in our lives.....not more.

[Ray76]

This is retarded.

[blueplum]

Some folks who signed up for Covered California expecting full or partially subsidized Zerocare, were shifted to the state Medi-cal (Medic-aid) rolls. Many of these folks weren’t qualified for Medi-cal because they exceeded income and/or asset ceilings, but did qualify for Zerocare subsidies.

After the State arbitrarily switched these folks, pre-Medicare age recipients started receiving rather terse form letters saying that the State intended to attach the recipient’s estate for the costs and would chase their estate down in other states’ if the recipient relocated - even insisting California be notified if the recipient moved out of state.

Otoh, I’ve never seen any disclosure from the State that defines what the actual monthly Medi-cal premium liability is to the recipient. In essence, it’s buying blind. Getting switched back to Zerocare has been a mess for many, leaving recipients with concerns there will still be a financial liability against their estates for an unknown sum they shouldn’t have been liable for to begin with since they signed up for Zerocare not welfare. We all know how states are once they decide you owe them money, and I’m not sure how they’re going to handle things once Calif goes single-payer because they’re not saying.

I hope people watch their own states like hawks to make sure that estate impoundment and funny business targeting the assets of pre-Medicare seniors isn’t part of their own state plans because it’s one heck of a trap.

[PGR88]

As long as we have a federal reserve that can create unlimited debt in a completely printed currency with manipulated interest rates, progressives and Fed.gov can have any social-engineering scheme the can think of

[rktman]

Uh, no.🤔

[FreedomNotSafety]

This is hilarious. Any government program that has as one of its requirements “no gaming the system” has already admitted failure. This would quickly become a tax payer financed public to private wealth transfer. Of course this lunatic would then claim but “gaming the system” was against regulations. Haha, hoho, lol, what a tool the author is.

[fruser1]

I’m still stuck on the previous question:

Should government be allowed to provide insurance?

To which my answer is no.

This precludes me from answering the current question.

[grania]

I scanned the article. It said nothing about if getting health care insurance would be mandatory. If it weren't mandatory, policies would emerge that would allow people to have the coverage they want, or none at all. Then, it would be up to the insurance companies to do what they do best...convince people to sign up for policies through effective advertising and positive perceptions about coverage.

I'd wager that most people who don't want insurance would sign up for a high deductible policy that only covers catastrophic situations.

[hinckley buzzard]

Profoundly stupid. Medicaid enrollees now cannot find doctors to see them, so their "insurance" is useless. This will only get worse. Second, assuming that a medicaid enrollee can find a provider, whee does his reimbursement come from? Same as always-- the taxpayer. IOW nothing new under the sun. Same ol' same ol'.