‘And there is no way we can afford “free” medical care.’
If “free” Medicaid and Medicare are ALREADY unaffordable, how are we going to afford to add MORE people to the plans? Won’t that just raise the cost proportionately?
Note to self: Any transition between private medical care and government run care will be chaos. Many doctors won’t take medicaid now, some won’t take medicare because they are (purposefully) paid less than they are paid through other insurance. At some point, it will be impossible to find a doctor who willingly takes either plan unless they are ‘forced’ to do so...at which point I imagine they will (have no choice but to) become employees of the government.
Anyone who thinks government run health care will work, hasn’t had to go on Medicaid or Medicare. On the flip side, here in Ohio, the ‘government’ won’t even administer Medicaid...it’s all been pawned back off to....insurance companies.
I took my wife to an ENT doctor last week.
There was a sign over the check-in desk.
It listed acceptable insurance providers.
One on the 'No' list was Medicare Complete.
(may have been the only one, don't remember any other)
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Don’tchaknow? We are goign to pay for it by spending like drunken sailors! That’s the hwole brilliant plan behind the 2-3 trillion dollar ‘stimulus plan’- spend spend spend (and when noone is looking, keep borrowing from China- further indebting us to hte communist regime)- Oh yeah, that and cutting health care to the elderly, the sick and other undesirables who are making life on the healthy too costly. When al lthe elderly and sick are gone, then where the money is goign to come from is a mystery- but rest assured, the dems will have another ‘answer’ by then. And let’s not forget- we’ll pay for universal health care by offerign it to illegal aliens as well- just keep doling out hte money, and somehow, someway, money will pop out of nowhere to pay for everything.
Change- America- You weanted it- now reap the whirlwind!
Medicare and Medicaid are cutting/will cut vision and dental plans in some places. Don’t get me wrong, I’m really grateful some family members who are elderly/disabled, and a few younger members who are now on disablility because of illness are able to get it!
Sure I’m grateful for these programs for their benefit, because they really need them now. But one of my daughters, who is medically disabled for now, already lost her vision benefits. She just got a letter that tells her that in the fall, she’ll lose her dental plan also! She used these plans wisely when she had them, but she’ll lose on these as well as the ones that abuse them!
What else are they going to cut?
This is just one insurance company's bureaucratic mess. IMAGINE this kind of red tape for everyone, over everything.