Posted on 07/11/2019 5:42:55 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
The threat to do away with Obamacare is once again on the rise nearly 10 years after it was passed, as a major challenge to the health care law got a sympathetic-sounding hearing in a federal appeals court this week.
If the case does ultimately reach the Supreme Court, and five justices agree to strike down the Affordable Care Act, experts say it would upend the U.S. health care system and strip health insurance from an estimated 20 million people. Many millions more would lose crucial protections they might need in case of catastrophic medical issues ― including coverage for those with preexisting conditions.
Republicans in the U.S. Senate don’t appear to be sweating the likelihood of such a scenario, however. Some are pinning their hopes on the courts to reject the challenge, which is backed by the Trump administration, on the grounds that it isn’t serious and is legally moot.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffpost.com ...
well, if they're paying you're medical bills then they can tell you what you can and can't do.
Allow insurance policy sales across state lines.
Trump has already started on his own plan by requiring them to expose their prices. That is the first step to a return to a REAL free market system.
This isn’t about health insurance. It’s about an over regulated industry being caused - by government interference and medling - to be priced too high to be affordable.
I went to the emergency room at a hospital several months ago. During the visit, the doctor came in, with hands in his pocket, made a comment that I might want to go to Louisville for follow up, and then he left. That was his full involvement.
We paid the full bill (we don’t have insurance) and then, a month later, got a collection notice that we had not paid the doctor’s bill - $1,200. We did get it reduced to $700, but I’ll die before I voluntarily go to an emergency room again. I’ll have to be unconscious.
Why post a Huffpo propaganda piece here?
Which was the entire point of 0bamacare, to create a situation from which single payer was the only alternative. We knew it and said so at the time.
No Plan is exactly what the health insurance industry needs but Marxists are not in control so that cannot work. Is there a way around Medicare so you don’t have to get on it?
Pretty sure the only way out is to be insured by a spouse that still works, like I do.
Let you buy it on the interweb.
Good pick up. Like Newsweak, they still produce articles?
Why do they need to?
Free Market: Learn it. Live it.
There is no workable plan that doesn’t involve smashing the medical monopoly and a short-term 20% hit to GDP as we return to a transparent and free market in health care. Every politician in DC is terrified of the effects of a real fix.
All medical treatments get cheaper and more accessible over time, as the costs are paid for.
MRI scans used to cost $10,000 for a scan. Now, you can get one for $300. What other plan do you need?
Strange
I just heard a very sincere and convincing Republican congressman from Louisiana say they had a very good plan accepted by the House but lost by one vote in the Senate.....2 years ago
And now, it is.
My belief is that "Medicare for All" is a near certainty in the next Congress, even if it is Republican controlled and Trump continues as president. The debate will be about how to make the trains run on time. Business will back it as they want out of the healthcare bureaucracy. That will put Trump in reluctant agreement.
Five states currently allow that. You know how many policies have been sold? None. There is nothing in it for the insurance companies.
Obamacare isn’t going anywhere because the GOP loves Obamacare. The GOP donor class loves socializing employee expenses like health care and privatizing profits. I will no longer be duped by the GOP beltway scams.
Private health insurance -- as Americans have come to expect it (and demand it) -- is unsustainable on its face ... for all the reasons you cited in your post. Everyone wants to have access to unlimited financial resources to pay for any and all medical procedures they may need in their lifetime, but nobody really wants to pay the cost of it. So "health care" becomes nothing more than a shell game where people pay the cost of what they demand without realizing they ARE paying it.
Private health insurance is like Marxism. It's built on a business model that has no basis in economic or physical reality, so it eventually collapses under its own weight.
It is if the court rules it unconstitutional.
And I like you too.
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