Posted on 08/11/2016 10:45:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
It certainly is not working anything like we were told it would. The system as a whole is in crisis but more pressing, most individuals are in personal crisis having this communist health collective forced on us and having the insurance companies intentionally driven out.
Those of you that have been retired for the last several years can take a simple test to illustrate our personal crisis. Just compare your total personal medical care expense five years ago with now. Compare the percent of your personal disposable income including SSA today is consumed with medical costs today with just five years ago.
Great West combined with Cigna and then Cigna combined with Blue Cross. Still waiting to see what impact the latest merger will have on doctor clients who are Cigna providers but not providers with Blue Cross.
United Healthcare is a joke. The big umbrella is Optum, the mental health portion is generally United Behavioral Health. Just received notice that they have signed a whole lot of contracts in Texas for totally state funded plans for illegals, particularly children. Contract rates for docs who see patients under the state funded plan are a lot higher than is paid to the docs who see patients under an employer funded plan. Taxpayers are being taken to the cleaners! Thanks Governor.
Today, it is fashionable, in vogue, to completely ignore parts (Article I Section 8, limited powers) while observing others (Presidential election every 4 years). The line between ignore what's fashionable to ignore and what's fashionable to follow is very grey.
Whose to say the remaining parts we follow today won't erode away slowly into the future, such as the presidential election/electoral college part? Whose to say the remaining parts we follow today won't erode away quite quickly? or overnight due to some "crisis"?
The looming ObamaCare crisis will be solved by the UniParty: single payor healthcare financing.
“in-person outreach to help more people enroll”
Commie care is bad enough, now we’re going to have brown-shirts knocking on people’s doors asking why they haven’t signed up.
Don’t both candidates want single payer?
Obama: The Jive Hustler who relies on the ignorance of idiots to believe every word he says.
Obamacare demolition does not matter. Hilda beast will be safely ensconced in the White House by then.
while also driving up rates
It was designed to drive up rates and to push insurance companies into bankruptcy so they could foist their single payer system on everyone.
Average cost are going up 9% ???? Really? They turn right around and cite 2 states with 40% increases and you can add so many more, like Illinois.
Everyone I know is having rate increases on a massive scale and not just the exchanges. What you get from your employer may be a group policy, not necessarily an exchange policy. How much have they gone up? Ours have gone up double digits every year since this dumblecrat bohica law was passed.
That’s over doubled the cost.
IMHO everything tht has been, is, and will be written about the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) starts with a false premise.
The authors of this act did NOT intend for it to be successful. That’s right it was designed, written, and executed to be a failure. So, from that view point it has been a smashing success!
ObamaCare was an intermediate step designed to forceful ably transition America’s healthcare system from a free market model to a one payer pays all system like all Socialist based healthcare systems.
The people involved in its development took a fairly successful system which they had no control over and replaced with a failed design which they controlled from start (birth) to end (death).
Bottom-line:
It was never about healthcare it was always about control.
My medical expenses have not changed in 5 years. Close to zero in 5 years. I am in my 11th year on Medicare. My medicine is 1 hour total walk at brisk pace every day, almost no red meat, lots and lots of fruits and vegetables, no smoking, 1 glass of Riesling in any one day. Only medication i take is Lisinopril 10 mg, which costs me 40 cents for 3 month supply at Walmart. yes that is cents, not dollars.
Freepers should go through the comments on the Hill article, they are mostly commenting like Sam Adams wild right now. A Trump tsunami is coming.
I would think that the key date is not the date the sign up talleys are due but rather the date that the consumers sign up for coverage. That’s the date the sticker shock hits.
Planned that way.
“Possible”? The Hill is a joke.
And it don’t rain
in Indianapolis
In the summer time
There’s no such thing as Dr. Seuss
Disneyland
or Mother Goose
There’s no nursery rhymes...
I believe in market-driven healthcare. We have an existing "government-run" healthcare system: Medicare. And it is rife with abuse and inefficiency. It is corrupt, and wastes BILLIONS of tax dollars every year. For that matter, The VA is "government-run" healthcare - also corrupt and inefficient. The horror stories we hear about veteran's care...we should all be ashamed that we let our government treat so poorly those who have served.
There is not one solution that will provide good care to every single citizen, but I believe that market-driven healthcare policies will result in more people covered and more choices for healthcare consumers. Health insurers are constrained by a lot of government red tape. Our government can loosen the rules and allow more competition - across state lines, for example. Again, there is no single solution on healthcare or health insurance. But I trust the market and consumers to make good decisions. Any government plan (like Medicare and the VA), regardless of good intentions, eventually becomes a bargaining chip for politicians.
Regarding your comment, "Leave people in the streets to die," - ask the families of some VA-insured patients who pretty much were left to die waiting for care.
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