Two-tiered healthcare is a better way to describe the future. Buying supplemental insurance to augment your care will always be possible. But, like it or not, a “bare minimum” Medicare-like standard has been set. It will be incredibly costly and not cover much of what needs to be covered.
What were those stats last week or so...
50% of people can’t raise 500 bucks for an emergency....
60% percent can’t raise a grand....
And what is LOWEST deductible with Obummercare? 5/6 thousand??
You got it absolutely correct. The bare basic program will be most everyone who makes less than $50,000 a year and wants cheap affordable healthcare. The supplemental insurance will be the gimmick that most who make $50,000 or more....can afford....and gives all the bells and whistles.
I know it’ll anger a heck of a lot of people but this is the only way to give people exactly what they want....affordable healthcare. Roughly fifty-percent of the nation will have the no-thrills and affordable care....and the rest will pay for good stuff.
If you look in Germany today, its the solution that exists.
Think about this. In the bill and by executive order, freedom for the state to experiment is given. We have a local state Senator that is a huge promoter of "Direct Primary Care" combined with Health Savings Accounts, especially if the House and or Senate fixes the anomaly in O-Care that only let you enroll and pay for your DPC with HSA Dollars. Why is this important? 20 to 30% savings and it may go higher than that, way higher.
This Senator proposed this as an alternative to Medicare expansion here in MI, but one Rino Turncoat and RINO Gov. Snyder nixed that.
So Medicare can now experiment with such cost effective systems that have the potential of lowering cost and increasing care.
Even though this American Author writing in Canada is being a sourpuss, I ask if these changes are successful as I think they will be ( and we haven't even gotten to Dr Price's "Administrator Shall" powers w/in O-Care that were not removed to change all the Sebilius regs and more.
How does this not improve our productivity and ability to compete on the internal stage and when does all these socialist health care systems of our finest allies have to look at adopting ours to compete? I think between our Energy, Healthcare and lower Corp Taxes coming, we will clean Canada's clock in terms of GDP and competitiveness, and that i only ally.
President Trump is changing the game and no one sees it, IMHO when the rubber hits the road on this, the rest of the free world will have to emulate us...