Posted on 01/28/2017 9:15:41 AM PST by Auntie Mame
I’m sure Trump remembers those days. Maybe that can happen again, as an option?
Medicare for all.
Someone who lost his healthcare under obama told me, that he realized not having health insurance was surprisingly cheap.
First step is stop insuring routine office visits
End all mandates on what coverage people must buy - they purchase only what coverage they think they need. All companies can sell insurance in all states if they want. Government subsidies only to help with catastrophic coverage insurance and supplemental insurance to help with preexisting conditions. No one on their parents’ insurance after twenty years of age - start encouraging more independence and less snowflakedness by having kids purchase their own policies which at young age would be minimal cost. Age adjusted limits beyond which cost of medical care would be fully deductible from tax obligation.....
Two words: “Singapore model”. It works
I have heart disease which at some point may need open heart surgery to fix.
I’m self-employed and for many, many years I was unable to get health insurance...completely and totally unable to get it. Not one company would insure me, not one.
Then, under Obamacare I was finally able to get it. I understand how awful O-care is. I’ve got friends who have seen their rates double and triple while their deductibles have risen to $8,00-$12,000 before coverage starts, which is completely untenable.
I know some Freepers here say folks like us should just pay the $500,000 to the heart surgeon and cardiologist, or find a doctor willing to take payments, or simply die because we’re not multi-millionaires, but in the real world...that just won’t fly.
We somehow have to find a way to fix the system without returning it to the bad old days when people like me were simply terminal patients who just weren’t embalmed yet.
Ed
And if they have no coverage and they have deadly results from the pre-existing condition?
You’d just have them die?
Ed
That’s insane. We live in a country that should be better than that...”no money, sorry buddy, go off and die somewhere.”
In my opinion that’s barbarous.
There was a woman in my town about 15 years ago, a single mother with three kids who got brain cancer. The surgeon wouldn’t operate on her unless he was paid $35,000 up front, which she didn’t have.
Her friends threw car washes, BBQ’s and put jars out all over town asking for donations.
It didn’t work, she couldn’t raise the money and she died.
That was barbaric...just barbaric, that in this day and age the gov’t had no way to help her.
There has to be a safety net, in my opinion, and not simply your method of “no money, go away and die.”
Ed
No. Low income folks have access to Medicaid and insurance companies should offer affordable catastrophic plans along with transfer coverage if between policies - as mentioned in another post.
Got it...sorry.
Ed
First step is stop insuring routine office visits
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Good idea.
I’m not to keen on all this preventive medicine either. My docs want to prevent every damn thing.
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