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Posted on 07/10/2008 1:53:27 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) -- Healthcare experts are questioning the feasibility of likely Republican U.S. presidential nominee John McCain's plan to subsidize high-risk insurance pools.
Such state-run, high-risk pools are used by 35 states as stop-gap measures to provide health insurance for about 207,000 people who otherwise cannot obtain coverage from private insurers. In April, McCain, R-Ariz., announced that if elected president he would expand federal support for state high-risk pools or create a structure modeled after them, The Washington Post (NYSE:WPO) reported Wednesday.
But skeptics say it would take far more than the $10 billion McCain foresees the program as costing.
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Throw in 22+ million freshly minted citizanos each with a carload of ninos and see how those health car plans cost out.
I imagine high risk pools are those like stroke survivors or those with crohns disease and such that cannot get private health insurance. The citizanos should not be a factor here.
“So called” answers to “so called” problems.
Hillery said her healthcare system will cost the American tax payer 5 - 10% of his pay. Reality is that in most nations with socialist healthcare, like for example Germany you’re looking at 14.7% (pretax and a system with heavy rationing and price controls). The numbers don’t add up even if your giving the most optimistic scenarios, and the other examples out there show that the reality is far different. B-u-t, it sounds good!
It’s all about feel good politics. Think about what a huge deal Kyoto was years past!?!?! A BS issue, with BS answers, but as long as people reward politicians for pandering to ignorance like this, they will do it. It’s the consequence of a poorly educated electorate, people that are too young and imature to really be voting, people that are not even in their own eyes Americans that today have the “right to vote.” When the people are stupid, you get what we have today in American politics.
“I do not for a minute think it will cost 7 to 10 billion dollars a year,” Karen Pollitz, a Georgetown University professor who has studied high-risk pools, told the Post. “It may cost 7 to 10 billion dollars a week.”
That would be like 50,000 a week per person. So much for credibility of Georgetown.
Wow. Amazing how we never see critics doubting Hussein’s crap.
But of course the same “critics” assume Obama brought his health care program down from Mt. Sinai on stone tablets.
This is so much worse than Barak Mugabe Hussein's $40 billion health care program.
hehe...from Mt. Sinai on stone tablets. I gotta remember that one! :)
With this being ‘government’ health care, it could well cost $30-$40k in bureaucracy to administer $10k worth of care. This estimate is probably a little high, but I don’t doubt for a minute that the dems would slather this thing up in entitlement sauce, and McQueeg would shove it right down our throats.
Obambi ain't running on the "conservative" GOP ticket. McClame is. Don't expect conservatives to go hell bent crazy in full assault mode on Obambi while they have a liberal traitor in their camp waving the enemy flag at every opportunity.
“Imagine”, “should”, “would”, “could”...whatever makes you comfortable to think otherwise.
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