Ocare is bad, but I’ve not read a number that high anywhere. Because Ocare requires everyone to have a fairly high end policy, that is where the $13k a year comes from that I read about the most. Frankly, this might have worked if they pushed major medical policies but I don’t see how this mess is going to work. That is what happens when the two culprits that caused the problem, gov and insurance companies, take it upon themselves to solve it.
I was pretty shocked when I heard $13,000 per MONTH! I assumed that people were going to see rates doubled and tripled.
I believe these folks to be sincere, because they are not political, and it just came up in a general conversation while we were catching up. $13,000 per month was for the gold option, which would cover the specialists that the husband is currently seeing. He is about 50 and has had multiple health problems.
I think we will see the young get milked for more money, while the old get shafted with less services. Generic antibiotics and pain pills, the bum’s rush and assisted suicide.
The IPAB will determine that it is just not cost effective to do a bunch of diagnostic screenings, because it only results in higher costs to treat the identified disorders.