“A spokeswoman for the state’s largest private health insurance provider said the mandate provides stability...
...to their profit margins.”
A spokeswoman for the state’s largest private health insurance provider said "Cha-CHING! CHA-CHING!! CHA-CHING!!!"...
Insurance is not health care. What don’t those imbeciles get the idea? A health care provider has to accept the insurance otherwise it’s no good.
Those in states without a mandate will still wind up paying for the out of control cost of the mandated states because those states will be reimbursed by the feds through medicare.
That’s how Romneycare was effectively working for Massachusetts.
Wasn’t Vermont one of those states in the news paying people to move there?
A RINO Governor quietly signs a state Obamacare mandate into law.
The Uniparty is alive and well in VT.
It’s so good they have to threaten you with fines if you don’t have it. I’m pretty sure people who can’t afford health insurance can’t afford the fines either.
The healthcare system has grossly inflated prices, much like the higher education system due to government involvement preventing competitive market price transparency.
It’s become a horribly unsustainable racket, just like college costs...
Many U.S. hospitals mark up prices 1,000 percent: study - Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-hospit...Proxy Highlight
Jun 8, 2015 ... Many U.S. hospitals mark up prices
1,000 percent: study ... care insured patients pay a percentage” of chargemaster prices, she said.
Some Hospitals Marking Up Prices More Than 1,000 Percent - 2015 ...
https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2015...Proxy Highlight
Jun 8, 2015 ... The 50 hospitals in the U.S. with the
highest markup of prices over ... Many hospital patients don’t actually pay the “charge master” or full price.
Study: Hospitals still using chargemaster markups to maximize ...
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Sep 9, 2016 ... For-profit hospitals, hospitals that
serve a high number of uninsured patients and facilities with market power are more likely to rely on ...
Study: Hospitals charge more than 20 times cost on some ... - JHU Hub
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Sep 8, 2016 ... However, the relation between
chargemaster markups and hospital revenue, and
That "Republican" Governor of Vermont makes one wonder what the point of voting is at all. Like how much different would Sue Minter have even been? He's doing everything she would have.
That will include ‘a penalty’ for those who don’t have insurance. The mandate is scheduled to take effect in 2020.
Figures New Englanders.....nough said.
Health insurance demanded for those who can pay so they can pay for those who wont
Easy Fix with a Citizens Initiative:
There shall be Taxpayer Funded insurance of any kind for any Public Employee
Desperately trying to save a “healthcare” industry that inflates costs by 80% through blatanly illegal activities.
Unconstitutional.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Or are Constitution-impaired Vermont state leaders actually expecting citizens to start paying for health insurance while continuing to pay unconstitutional federal taxes?
Patriots, we really need to get rid of the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.
The 16th Amendment can disappear too.
The simple solution is to NOT require insurance, but refuse medical treatment if you can’t pay (cash, credit or by insurance).
Vermont Motto: "Freedom And Unity"
Freedom do do what the state says you must do.
Sounds like we are slowly sinking into communism with leaders like Governor Phil Scott and the legislators who voted this stinking bill in and Phil Scott who signed it. This gives me a horrible impression of Vermont, a state I once loved.
Vermont used to be the pinnacle of individual freedom.
