Posted on 10/25/2016 3:51:38 PM PDT by detective
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the architects of Obamacare, stated that “There’s a million people” for whom Obamacare premium increases are “going to be severe — or uncomfortable.”
Emanuel said that “most” Americans are not seeing 25% premium increases, because they get subsidies. He added, “[T]here are some relatively simple fixes. One is better social marketing to get young people in. Another is these risk corridors for the insurance companies, so that they can keep premiums lower. Another is to change…how much older people pay versus younger people, to decrease the cost for younger people overall. And the real ultimate test, Jake, is, can we keep healthcare costs low, and then insurance premiums don’t have to go up. And, so far, the ACA has been doing a pretty good job keeping insurance premiums low, and we have to redouble those efforts.”
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America once had the greatest health care system in the entire world. Now the quality is going down and the cost is sky rocketing.What was once the The quality of health care is
Premiums are low because deductibles are 12000
I heard this a**hole say that the solution is to sharply raise the fines for not buying 0bamacare.
Somebody’s gotta pay the freight so Pelosi’s musicians, artists, professional students and other deadheads will be free to live & create ... and all that other stuff that came out of her stinking pie-hole when she was telling us we had to pass it in order to see what was in it, after we attended town hall meetings, shouting, demanding it be ****canned.
When I was growing up and when I had kids in the 70s, we didn’t have insurance. A doctor’s visit was $25 at the most.
All ‘baked in the cake’. Now, there will be a meme campaign for ‘single payer’.
I recall similarly.
I recall increasing Healthcare costs started to become an issue from 1976, on.
Kaiser’s HMO model was seen as a way of getting costs under control.
Healthcare insurance costs have reached the snapping point of cost elasticity for most Americans.
Personal solution - leave the country, renounce your citizenship, and self identify as a Muslim refugee.
Voila’ - Instance Healthcare, housing, food and education subsidies!
Isn’t America Great?
there are two separate issues
the cost of health care
the cost of non employer provided insurance/medicare and Obamacare
1. Health care is rising for all independent of Obamacare. There is an Obamacare increase component but It is not quantified separately
2. Obamacare cost is rising terrifically when purchased through an exchange or direct. We don’t know about hidden cost rises like deductibles.
When equating to voters, #1 are by far the majority and #2 are a .decided minority and are not as harshly affected by Obamacare. The wrath of many of these voters will not benefit hillary.
Obamacare is not an issue actually affecting most voters.
“Emanuel said that “most” Americans are not seeing 25% premium increases, because they get subsidies.”
Subsidies paid by taxpayers. The gubbmint has NO MONEY apart from what it steals from the sheeple.
It is the taxpayers paying these subsidies.
Time to water the tree of liberty, IMO.
Can’t afford a government mandated ‘tax’ gets fined by the IRS. Makes sense. To a liberal.
My family, and then I, never had insurance. We paid cash for doctors visits. My first real desk job was with the county and came with insurance. 1977 or so. Even then it wasn’t like insurance now. We paid for doctors up front and then the doctor billed insurance for me. Blue Cross would send me a check for 80%. The only thing that wasn’t like that was emergency hospital visits. So you still needed money to go to the doc even though you had insurance. Sure cut down on the visits. Lol
Not the smartest thing to say to an already righteously pissed off America on TV. Bad things tend to happen to careless messengers with big mouths.
We currently have insurance through hubby’s job, but in 2013 we didn’t for 9 months when he was terminated from his previous job. I looked up Obamacare rates at the time and in Pinal County in Arizona we had 70 plans to choose from with the typical premium of $850/month with about a $12,000 deductible. We were 60 then, nonsmokers, making over $62,500 a year, so no subsidy.
Fast forward to yesterday when I checked the rates for 2017. We now have 4 plans to choose from with premiums ranging from $1850 to $3250. Deductibles are $13,000 with the exception of the most expensive plan which only has a $2000 deductible. Nothing has changed in our situation except now we’re 63.
On what planet is this affordable....for either the middle class or our country?
We need to remember that it is the same people that gave us “Affordable Health Care” are the same ones who are now promising “Affordable College”
What could go wrong?./s
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