Posted on 01/11/2024 10:30:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Obamacare. It gets worse every year.
No $hit!
The people with the best & care are on Medicaid. All benefits no cost!
Free emergency room services for illegals and other poor.
Free health care for "dreamers" and migrants, including free "gender affirming" surgery for them.
People don't realize, the more "free" health care for one group, the more some other group has to pay for it.
They want socialized medicine and they don’t care how they get it.
We have created the worst of both worlds!
You get a “standard of care,” which is mostly defined by government: NIH, CDC, FDA, DEA.
But you get to pay premium for this flow charted junk health care since you have private for profit hospitals, insurance companies, big pharma, health care loan companies all maximizing their profits and gouging the customer.
***When you go to an American hospital you are signing a blank check!!!***
Even a used car dealer can’t play the games health care providers can in the US.
question all the lab tests...why?...
“Federal policymakers must fix it to ensure affordability,”
Every f up in the medical industry can be laid directly at the feet of bureaucrats and politicians “fixing” the healthcare industry. And where the hell are $2000 deductibles. The only garbage obamacare plans in my county have deductibles of $7000 with &14,000 “out of pocket” before they cover a penny of care.
Someone has to pay for the nv@ders free health care.
A revealing glimpse into the warped health perspective in this culture - "putting food on the table" is authoritatively juxtaposed with "caring for health". Reality: the food you put on your table is a huge part of how you care for your health.
Why don’t doctors compete on the open market, advertise prices, etc? Why don’t doctors tell you what tests, procedures, etc. cost before you agree to them?
That's the beauty of ObamaCare. You pay for it, but you never really get to use it!
There is no “open market”....government pays for 70% of healthcare. And there are dozens of prices for each service/procedure...the “retail”/cash payer price the Medicare price (usually about 20% of retail), the Medicaid price (even less than Medicare), the Blue Shield price, the Aetna price, the United Healthcare price, etc., etc. etc.. The privately insured pay extra to cover the reduced payments from the 70% of billing paid by the govt..
My bad...the govt. pays for about 65% of the population’s medical coverage/care:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10830
I had heard 70% mentioned somewhere but that is high.
The only garbage obamacare plans in my county have deductibles of $7000 with &14,000 “out of pocket” before they cover a penny of care.
That means your premiums are nothing more than a tax until you have a catastrophic health event.
All by design.
“Federal policymakers must fix it to ensure affordability.”
Please, no more Federal fixes. Those idiots screw up every single thing they touch.
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With $900 monthly premiums for that $7000 deductible catastrophic coverage, there is a whole lot of taxation subsidizing the community.
I am quite familiar with a case where roughly $100,000 in Obamacare premiums over 12 years resulted in insurance paying for exactly two flu shots.
Cadillac insurance premiums for Yugo coverage. The government is here to help you.
Along with everything else.
NC insurance companies are proposing a 99.4% insurance increase for homeowners.
The ‘powers that be’ are purposely trying to price people out of owning homes.
The pre-tax HSA max contributions should, at a minimum, match the annual insurance deductibles.
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