Maybe we should do away with health insurance and charge a percentage of income.
For example - a baseline - a person making $400 a week ($20,800 a year) would pay $100 for a doctor’s office visit. 400/4 = 50).
A US Senator like Ron Paul makes $174,000 annually or $3,346 a week. Divide that by 4 and Ron Paul would pay $836 for a doctor’s visit.
Trump make about $400,000 a week. To see a doctor he would pay $100,000.
This isn’t feasible but it gives perspective on how much middle America is paying for ‘healthcare’...
There is WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS, and what will pass muster POLITICALLY. Unfortunately that’s the real world we live in.
I don’t think you’d get even 50 votes for a bill most of us would view as “proper”.
4 GOP Senators already have come out and said they won’t support eliminating the Medicaid expansion, and that’s even with keeping the other stuff. It’s going to be a major fight to get even this through, if that is even possible.
This proposal actually does not surprise me at all. It is exactly the sort of splitting the difference I expected from Republicans. They’ve always done that.