Posted on 03/02/2016 8:46:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Yes, and regarding the requirement to cover “pre existing” conditions, I hear democrats are talking about extending the requirement to all other insurance lines. Imagine being able to buy fire insurance and be covered while your house is in flames, or just after a fatal car crash, or even as you are receiving last rites at your life’s end. How could it hurt the industry?
Practice what you preach. Cruz is NOT a Natural Born Citizen. The Constitution is the law of the land yet TWO Ineligible people are trying to STEAL the Presidency. YOU find where a Canadian citizen is allowed to be the president in the Constiution and get back with me.
LOL! You are so uninformed.
The individual mandate was intended to bring more people into the insurance pools and thus lower the cost of insuring sick people. (Failure.)
However, even without the individual mandate, insurance companies are still prevented from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions (under Obamacare.)
So no one slips through the cracks. They never did really. During annual open enrollment, all major carriers have allowed pre-existing conditions for years and years.
Well, Dems still believe in fairy tales and the goose that will never stop laying those golden eggs.
Which is why they have to keep Jack and his mother down! lol
It isn't?
Many of us pay around $400 a month (or more) plus copays and big deductibles.
"Fair share" is RAT-speak.
What do you propose?
I’d love to get back to individual and church-based charity. Do you know how to do it, especially now that the guv’s already got its fingers in the pie?
I sure can’t think of a way to do it all in one go, especially not a way that will get past Congress.
And ESPECIALLY because charities have atrophied so much in the intervening years that they’d likely be crushed if all the current Medicaid cases—even the genuine ones where they’re unable to pay—were dumped onto them.
I’m not trying to mock you; I’m genuinely asking what could be done, because I can’t think of anything.
Nope....I just go by everything he’s said since he announced his campaign.
Here....read his healthcare plan, for yourself.....
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/healthcare-reform
Btw, I haven’t seen cRuz’s posted HC position, on his website.
All he has are donation buttons. LOL. $5, $10, $20....anything you can do will help....Yikes....why am I thinking about that CReepy CRuz donation vid this late at night? :-/
Take care.
Nice big donation button on Trump’s site.
Oh, btw, you mean the plan this week?
So Romney’s a candidate? Don’t think so. Besides, he’s not in Trump’s league.
Amen, but will he actually follow through? He’s said he’s a deal-maker. He’s said everything is negotiable. He’s said he goes big up front knowing that he’ll negotiate down.
My primary questions, at this point, are how much will he negotiate down and can I live with it? (Obviously, Hillary would screw us.)
On every flipping page???? Nope.
On the opening “capture” page???? Nope.
Nope...Only get that with cRuz-in for your $ site ;-)
Well, the first thing we need to recognize is that Trump's solution is a big government solution. It is more of the same.
We got here incrementally and the only way to back out is one step at a time.
Guaranteeing everyone who has a pre-existing condition some kind of insurance is an incremental increase in the big government.
Repeal. Don't replace.
Number 2 is a red herring. Any insurance company can sell policies in any state provided they meet state laws. The problem is that each state has their own mandates and restrictions which make policies more or less expensive.
What’s Trump going to do, forbid states from passing laws?
Personally, I see this as a big step in the right direction. This IS incrementally, and maybe if we’re intent enough we can push it a little bit further until the time comes to try to deregulate again.
As I mentioned earlier tonight, I don’t think it’s possible at this point to do everything in one go, barring complete national collapse.
Me? I was going to write kittenclaws . . . hissssssssss, my don't we have the claws out tonight. You did much better than I ever could.
Ya know, sometimes even the wife does not want to slow down and absorb the information before scratching. Just smile and walk away quietly. eh?
Not so, and I know this first-hand. If you had a pre-existing condition, you could NOT buy health insurance, even if you had the ability to pay an increased premium. (Oh, you could, with a massively increased premium, if you just immediately lost your insurance, like timing out of a COBRA plan - but if you weren't in that exact position, you were S*** Out Of Luck.)
I think you should be able to buy insurance no matter what - to not have it can turn into a death sentence for some. I understand that for some it will have to be offered at increased premium cost, due to the known increased load they'll put on the system.
> “The decision to go against the idea of an individual mandate is new for Trump, who told CNN during a February town hall before the South Carolina primary that he “likes the mandate” and that makes him “a little bit different” than other conservatives.”
I reviewed in depth the exact exchange and the mandate DT referred to were the NY State mandates to treat all people at ERs, else people would literally be dying in the streets.
NBC and other national media and their local affiliates continue to take his statements out of the intended contexts.
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