Posted on 11/25/2013 5:27:12 PM PST by markomalley
Interest paid on a loan is a cost. No way should that be taxed as income (profit).
Don’t forget the ambulance chasers and illegals who are bleeding the healthcare system dry.
My proposal for healthcare reform would be the following:
1.) Tort reform to end frivolous lawsuits.
2.) Cut the waste fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid.
3.) Get it in people’s head to use available healthcare clinics for non life threatening medical situations instead of going to the ER for sprains and sniffles.
4.) Start holding the governments of these illegals in our country accountable for the healthcare of THEIR citizens. Hospitals need to ask where these people are from, and bill the appropriate government consulate. Any government that refuses to pay will face trade sanctions.
“Jason Furman says the real story is how much the growth in health care costs and cost sharing have slowed in the last few years”
Everything’s slowed, except the artifical injections of the 08 bailout and SNAP driving up food costs.
Unemployment = lower health care costs.
Make hypochondriacs pay more.
Yah, I agree but the Walking Deadocrats will figure
they will be able allow enough “undocumented workers”
into the country to make that 5% figure a reality.
Oh you mean those that rack up tens if not hundreds of thousands worth of medical bills that get passed off on to you and I?
Most of that is the waste fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid.
Hey, Obama said Obamacare is working great in California!
“Working Great” means the Middle Class is screwed and everyone else is on Medicaid.
I was surprised how few people woke up when Medicaid signup information was included in my company’s health insurance / benefits packet, for those who couldn’t afford the higher insurance rates.
You’re right. Tort reform is a major cost for doctors and medical costs, because doctors perform a lot of “defensive medicine”. Obama decries the waste and excess, but doesn’t rein in the lawyers so doctors don’t have to do a lot of extra tests as CYA.
Lawyers have too much weight for that to have been included in the ACA as part of the medical reform bill.
ObamaCare makes perfect sense when you realize it’s the Democrats Social Security Reform package.
They want to kill everyone as close to when they’re eligible to collect Social Security as possible. That holds for whether it’s this current abomination or some future single payer iteration a few years from now.
They desperately want people to stop living so long.
If you’re sick with no insurance, go to a hospital ER and talk Spanish.
Moron, maybe, but he does want to keep HIS job. :)
There is almost no Obama policy that isn't founded on that principle. This is the reparation presidency.
Whether you get it through your employer or individually, the cost of health insurance should be tax deductible.
Ah, THAT Boxer!
I’m amazed that people are upset about paying co-pays, and some percentage of the costs of their health-care. I guess it’s just that people have gotten used to expecting everything to be covered, but frankly, if you’re only paying $4680 a year for a family to be covered, that in itself is a bargain!
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