Why did Democrats pass a law that forces people to buy health insurance that denies the claims of millions of sick people?

Wordpress ^ | December 16, 2024 | Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)

[JSM_Liberty]

Private healthcare insurance companies are just as good at denying claims.

“Claims adjusters” have been around for a long time.

[Tell It Right]

But when it comes to paying for these things, I definitely think there needs to be some kind of government involvement for people who can’t afford private health insurance

More government involvement = insurance becomes even less affordable.

[Ronald77]

More claims denied the more money goes to the politicians.

[Pete Dovgan]

Why did Democrats pass a law that forces people to buy health insurance that denies the claims of millions of sick people?

Well. Before Obamacare the healthcare insurance industry had profits of less than 5% per year. Several were down in the 3-4% range. That’s actually a pre-failure margin for a business. The laws that Congress had passed made their margins small. This is all fact and your welcome to look it up.

In essence, Obamacare was an INSURANCE COMPANY and IT TECHNOLOGY (EMR’s) bailout. It was NEVER about care, it was about Government power, spending, and bailing out donors. That’s what it was, so the question really doesn’t make sense because Obamacare succeeded in bailout the insurance industry and ushering in IT/EMR’s and their costs.

[Organic Panic]

I just joined a co-op cost sharing plan. And it covers the membership for a private local doctor. Good if you have no preexisting conditions.

The crap obamacare plans here cost a fortune and no local clinics accept them. When I tried to get a regular checkup, it was 7 months out and a 3 hour drive one way. All I wanted I was what I had forever. A high deductible catastrophic plan. Now, they are illegal thanks to Obamacare. What a joke.

[Paal Gulli]

Because the goal all along was the collapse of the private health insurance industry, leaving only Obamacare and “single payer,” but they fell short of their objective.

Next question?

[Salman]

Never mind the “socialized medicine” propaganda. That was just a trick to get libs to support what was always a payoff to corrupt insurance companies.

[fwdude]

It’s that time of year when the Obamacare commercials are flying thick on media. The incessant lies make me sick.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

That’s easy. Because they hate old people and want them to die and get out of the way.

[dragnet2]

It’s a law you must have insurance. Just don’t ever think about filing a claim! Pay up and shut up!

[blackdog]

Why? Because Nancy Pelosi said, "We have to pass the bill to see what's in it".

Seriously.

[butlerweave]

Wasn’t Obamacare in the back of Nancy’s desk drawer for many years under a different name ,LOL

[blackdog]

The $9,000 per person co-pays in Obamacare itself is a pretty darn good claims adjuster. People will figure that out eventually and blame the wrong people for it.

Once the government saw that the amount being taken out of people's paychecks for health insurance was greater than federal income tax withholding, the government decided it needed to get into the Healthcare business.

It's really just that simple.

[fwdude]

One of the main reasons to hate Obamacare is that is is not so much a "law" but an open-ended edict. It was intended to be so comprehensive, so sweeping and so vague in many of its dictates that the legislation of it continues to be ongoing AFTER THE FACT, based on the whims of any current Democrat administration. So, we heard, several times a year, Obama make changes that affected more people, changes that were not explicitly mentioned in the law.

[taxcontrol]

The simple answer is virtue signaling.

[ClearCase_guy]

Politicians don’t write laws. They’ve haven’t for a very long time.

Laws are written by industry lobbyists to benefit the industry that pays the lobbyist. Health insurance laws make insurance companies rich. That’s why they were written.

You didn’t think Health Insurance laws were written to provide health insurance, did you?

[katana]

The one time my family and I were covered under a "universal" government supported health care plan was when I was an expatriate working in Belgium. Their system, Assurance Belge (Assubel), a government supported quasi private insurer, covered my wife's pregnancy, birth of our twins, pediatrics, post natal PT, and kinesiology therapy for my wife. Monthly fees to Assubel were deducted from my salary, my employer matched that, and the government funds covered the unemployed and elderly. Can't remember the proportions, but it was affordable.

However, another big factor was the difference in how doctors there worked, lived, and their overall legal system. Doctors worked from small offices, more often than not answered their own phones, made house calls, and didn't have the enormous malpractice insurance expenses. Without tort reform and taking the lawyers and courts out of the system nothing on this side of the pond will ever change.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Easy - to pay for abortions and gender-affirming care.

[metmom]

More government involvement = insurance becomes even less affordable.

There's not a thing the government gets its grubby, greedy paws on that it doesn't ruin.