Posted on 12/13/2025 8:18:21 AM PST by Angelino97
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Obama Care, SSecurity, Etc are too expensive ‘cause of two things:
inflation caused by BeijingBiden’s money printing
too much demand — 20M illegals and 50M visa holders.
The 2nd cause is easily solved.
And the answer to the illegal aliens is deportation.
As a wise man once said, “You better think 10 times before you hand out a bennie, because if you ever try to take it away you’ll suffer the pains of hell!”
“President Trump proposed managing health expenses with a patient-controlled savings account. He wants to cut insurance companies out of recurring payments, such as monthly prescriptions”
About three days ago, ABC News showed a segment on how a family fought for and got an $800,000/year drug for their child.
THE BID WE N ADMINISTRATION POLICIES ATE WHAT MADE AFFORDABLE LIVING MORE DIFFICULT, ESPECIALLY THE GREEN SCAM, NOT TRUMP’ ACTIONS.
“enrollments made in their names are fraudulent”
Deloitte and similar Poverty Pimps are most responsible, not the poor. The failure of this type of article is misplace the focus. The simple fact is that it pays far better to be a Poverty Pimp like Deloitte and to be poor.
The IES Integrated Eligibility System of Deloitte in 25 states (and parts of it in other states) signs up the poor for EBT/Food Stamps, WIC, TANF, SEC8, and Medicaid, the bigee, and other programs. The povety pimps are paid a “CAPITATION” for every active record in the database.
Deloitte databases have a large number of the dead on multiple welfare programs. Deloitte databases have a large number of DUPS. A poor person spells a street address ST in one place and ST. with a period in another. They are Sue Smith on one record, Susan Smith on a second record and Susan Jones-Smith on a 3rd record....all with the same SSN. Poverty Pimps make money by having many DUPS in the database.
The poverty pimps like Deloitte get paid for the errors, not the poor.
In some cases, the medicaid provider Triple Bills Sue, Susan and Susan Jones-Smith. The provider didn’t create the problem, the provider just takes advantage of the situation. If caught, which is rare, the provider can easily blame errors in the 3d party billing contract. The excess money just becomes a no-interest loan to be paid back.
But it is poverty pimps like Deloitte, more than anyone else, that make WFA Waste, Fraud, Abuse possible.
In 1929, the father of the department secretary of the company I worker for had $100,000 in the bank.
That would have been enough to buy six mansions.
The bank lost the money.
Social Security was created because asset prices didn’t hold up.
Democrats are on a mission to lower housing costs, and prices.
Republicans will not be outdone.
Trump is offering tariff rebates and stuffing money into accounts that will not be of use for 18 years.
Unless the law mandated other people paid for that $800,000/year drug, it might not get sold at all.
And with 90% of us wholly or partially on the dole, that's nearly universal screams.
So .... politicians can't fix it because the people won't stand for it.
We need to look in the mirror.
Insurance could be purchased from hospital systems if drug coverage was separated out.
Pre-paid care (say $20,000 at Medicare rates) might be purchased for say $24,000 from hospitals. It’s not done now because hospitals are overpriced local monopolies.
Split most hospitals into two to cut hospital pricing down to a rational level.
“spend at least 80% or 85% of premium dollars on medical care, with the rate review provisions imposing tighter limits on health insurance rate increases.”
“This perversely rewards insurance companies for driving up premium costs and overlooking inefficient health services. A 15-percent profit on a high premium is worth more to them than a 15-percent profit on a low premium.”
From my plan:
Extractable profit to not exceed:
1. 1% of the Medicare amount, plus $100, for each inpatient episode paid within 30 days of initial correct provider billing and within 60 days of initial provider billing,
2. 1% of the Medicare amount, plus $8, for each other provider bill paid to the contracted amount within 30 days of initial correct provider billing and within 60 days of initial provider billing,
3. $1 for each off-patent drug prescription paid for, $3 if for 90 days,
4. $5 for each patented drug prescription paid for within 30 days of the policy year, $15 if for 90 days, and
5. $20 for each recombinant drug provision paid for within 30 days of the policy year.
Administrative related and in-house care costs shall not exceed the extractable profit limit, any applicable reasonable state law limit, or any policy limit.
The percentage of premium limit shall be stated within the first 1000 characters of any initial normal course of access policy specific marketing page.
Insurers may, with reasonable 30-days online posted notice, raise premiums of a PPACA policy type to reasonably expect to reach the extractable profit level based on actual and reasonably forecast expenses during the calendar year, subject to a 5% monthly premium rise cap.
“politicians can’t fix it because the people won’t stand for it.”
You fix the provider side first.
Divide most hospitals into two fiercely competitive entities.
Separate out drug coverage.
Split medical education into simpler segments and start it in the first two years of college, with anatomy taught at the high school level on an online basis.
Hospitals have multi-million dollar equipment that needs to be shared. Who's to ensure they'll be competitive? Where does the ambulance head? Who knows what the charges will be until they start cutting? Do we split hospitals that are already 50% capacity? What about medical costs at clinics and Dr. offices? They're no bargain either.
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Prices skyrocketed under Biden but no one mentioned an affordability crisis. Every time a Republican is president the media comes up with some kind "crisis" to harangue about.
“Quantitative Easing”, meaning flooding the markets with fiat money, made out of thin air, created inflation. Production must catch up to it and that will not be for at least 3-5 years.
More socialism to fix socialism.
Trump pushing for lower FED interest rates will increase the Fiat Flood.
“Hospitals have multi-million dollar equipment that needs to be shared.”
One will get the 2026 version. The other will continue to use the 2024 version.
It may be necessary to share certain equipment.
“Who’s to ensure they’ll be competitive?”
Ask gasoline station operators.
“Where does the ambulance head?”
Where the patient is in-network or has purchased coverage from.
“Who knows what the charges will be until they start cutting?”
Alexa, have a look at my imaging.
My estimate is about $26K at both Snakeville General Left and Snakeville General Right.
“Do we split hospitals that are already 50% capacity?”
Yes, and rent the excess space to Third Party Rehab Inc. and Fourth Party Rehab Ltd. and sell some space off to Worry Wart Assisted Living.
Patients are almost never in more than one room at a time.
“Hospitals have multi-million dollar equipment that needs to be shared.”
Most of the expensive equipment of 2010 has been replaced, several times.
As for MRI/PET scanners, they should be at airport centers to maximize isotope lifetimes.
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