Posted on 02/05/2017 7:13:44 PM PST by Read Write Repeat
President Trump said Sunday that it could take “sometime into next year” until his ObamaCare replacement plan is ready, a slower timetable than he and other Republicans have put forward in the past.
Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly asked Trump in an interview before the Super Bowl if Americans can “expect a new healthcare plan rolled out by the Trump Administration this year.”
“Yes, in the process and maybe it’ll take till sometime into next year but we’re certainly going to be in the process,” Trump replied. “You have to remember Obamacare doesn’t work so we are putting in a wonderful plan,” he added.
“It statutorily takes a while to get. We’re going to be putting it in fairly soon, I think that yes I would like to say by the end of the year at least the rudiments but we should have something within the year and the following year.”
In contrast, last month, Trump said he would be putting forward a plan shortly after his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), is approved by the Senate, a far faster timetable.
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Let those Obamacare premiums kick in again next year so they will thank you, Mr. Trump!
You are probably right. High costs are part of the problem. I had an Emergency Room visit about two years ago for a gall bladder attack. Was there about an hour. My insurance company was billed 8k. And I was billed an additional 1300.00 that the insurance co. refused. So, 9300 dollars for an hour and no special treatment or surgery, that was done at a later date. The doctor on duty just asked me about the symptoms I was having, gave me a dose of medicine and sent me on my way.
An acquaintance of mine was involved in an auto accident. He was helicopter lifted to a hospital about 25 miles from the scene of the accident. The bill for that ‘copter ride was nearly 100,000 dollars, and he was billed for over 10,000 of it. Maybe I am getting old, and “behind the times” but those kind of prices seem over the top to me...IMHO.
Do what you did before Obamacare.
***The only solution is to free health insurance and health care from government regulations. That would reduce costs dramatically and improve care.***
I am between insurance coverage right now. I have to see my Cardiologist every 3 months. My standard visit plus an EKG every visit was costing my insurance company $300 a visit, not including labs, plus my $60 co-pay and the $100 a week for major medical. Now it cost me $125 not including labs. You do the math. And this has nothing to do with Obama care. 20+ years ago we didn’t have insurance for a few months and it was the same thing. The healthcare system charges insurance companies entirely too much money. Don’t think for a second they are somehow losing money on me. They are just gouging the hell out of insurance companies. Someway, somehow that has to be stopped. And I worked as a Nurse for years so I also understand that health care workers need to be paid for their services as well.
But a lot of people don’t realize how a hospital bills for supplies. For example; they order diapers in bulk. When they open a new case, they charge the baby/patient for the whole case, even if they use 2 diapers. Then they charge the next patient for the whole case and so on. So let’s say, 6 or 7 patients get diapers from that 1 case, they all get billed for a whole case. Anything else in bulk like that is billed the same way. Even with insurance I always ask for an itemized bill because it never fails I will see charges for things I know we’ve never used. And I’ve never had to go beyond telling the billing Dept to simply take that charge off because I didn’t receive that service/supplies from them because they know they put things on your bill they know they didn’t do/use to make more money. That has to be addressed, because for years that has been one contributor to the high cost of insurance.
What is a “high risk pool?”
“The price of healthcare is over the top.”
And health insurance is the reason. It seems counter-intuitive but healthcare would be a lot cheaper and a lot more available if health insurance were much more limited in scope.
It what existed before Obamacare in 35 states ( if the number I have read is correct ) and that is an insurance pool for those with illnesses that were excluded from coverage via pre-existing conditions. If you read some of what Team Trump is talking about, it sounds like some sort of a system like I mentioned will be as part of the plan rather than insurers covering them directly. I don’t know if they would all have a part in this pool and cover the risk, or would states or the Fed be an insurer of last resort. I haven’t seen the plan.
***There ought to be consequences for bad decisions. Take care of yourself and get right with God and God will take care of you. Don’t expect the government to steal my money to take care of you. The government is not intended to be a forced charity that uses guns to keep the “donations” rolling in.***
Wow. So what bad decision and what consequences am I paying for for being born with a rare, deadly, congenital heart defect. Was my sister not “right enough” with God to die from the same defect she didn’t know she had? I think before you start lecturing people about God maybe you should, I don’t know, think before you speak. Otherwise, I agree with the rest of your comments. Charity is not charity when forced, it’s simply confiscation.
But FYI not everyone has health problems because they didn’t “take care of themselves.”
YOU cover them, it is not Fed Govs job.
Insurance and healthcare are a service, it needs paid for BY THE USER.
Its too expensive because ‘we’ keep wanting someone ELSE to pay for our ‘best healthcare available’. Give ME the best and ‘they’ pay for it.
Well all I know is this: I’m 45 years old. Since I was born I was on my Father’s insurance, them my husband. Once years ago, we were without insurance for a few months while he changed jobs. Same thing now, and we will have insurance again within this month. So for 45 years I’ve been without Heath insurance less than a year. As I said in a previous post, I was diagnosed with a rare congenital heart defect. If I somehow am not allowed to have insurance or am considered to have a pre-existing condition and put into some high risk category you tell me how that could possibly be fair?
Trump is fighting for our future against steep odds and it looks like Ryan and McConnell think they have leverage enough to try to keep the "old ways" (screw the People and hail the "representatives") by defying Trump when it looks like the Left is gaining ground/sympathy. They both need to be replaced - but do the others have the decency/balls to do it.....
Sounds like somebody else needs to get right with God.
Understood. That is true for lots of professions. However, I have a follow up. They limit the enrollment, but what about facilities? Aren’t the facilities limited, too, which helps to limit enrollment? UVA’s teaching hospital can only handle so many students or is this incorrect thinking?
Tax cuts + inversion holiday by the end of the month. The HSAs need to be expanded NOW as the contributions lower AGI. People were expecting an immediate repeal and held off. Now they’re stuck. Allow them to pay for short term health insurance premiums with their HSAs. These plans aren’t compliant with Obamacare plan requirements, yet it’s still health insurance and affordable for those who don’t work for large multinationals with their self-funded plans.
I know the US Constitution. What I suggested was a quick fix in tax reduction no Democrat can effectively argue against while Congress dismantles Obamacare to get back to the US constitution.
Go ask the people on this thread if they don’t mind giving up their Medicare, as that’s a completely unconstitutional program.
The Democrats rammed unconstitutional Obamacare legislation into law in record-breaking time. So with all due respect to Trump, why can’t he at least try to break their record for express-lane lawmaking. /semi-sarc
my feeling is that more facilities(of all types)
would open up
if AMA limits were removed.
(will not happen overnight in the case of
new medical schools.)
physical buildings, slots in medical schools,
slots in teaching hospitals, etc
Oh, I understand. I should have figured that out. That makes sense. Thanks.
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