Posted on 01/15/2017 5:52:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President-elect Donald Trump said in a weekend interview that he is nearing completion of a plan to replace President Obama’s signature health-care law with the goal of “insurance for everybody,” while also vowing to force drug companies to negotiate directly with the government on prices in Medicare and Medicaid.
Trump declined to reveal specifics in the telephone interview late Saturday with The Washington Post, but any proposals from the incoming president would almost certainly dominate the Republican effort to overhaul federal health policy as he prepares to work with his party’s congressional majorities.
Trump’s plan is likely to face questions from the right, following years of GOP opposition to further expansion of government involvement in the health-care system, and from those on the left, who see his ideas as disruptive to changes brought by the Affordable Care Act that have extended coverage to tens of millions of Americans.
In addition to his replacement plan for the ACA, also known as Obamacare, Trump said he will target pharmaceutical companies over drug prices and demand that they negotiate directly with Medicaid and Medicare.
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A few thoughts:
1) health care has always been limited . We can not provide 100% health coverage for everyone. But no politician can say that out loud.
2) The issue is who makes the decision. We as individuals, insurance companies, Government? Be honest here. Who do you want to decide?
3) The issue is who pays for it? Be honest here, who do you want to pay for it?
Also:
If I buy something with my money for me, I am concerned about quality and cost.
If I buy something with my money for you, I care about cost, not quality.
If I buy something with your money for me, I care about quality, not cost.
If I buy something with your money for you, I don’t care about quality or cost.
Believe me, there were a multitude of “solutions” that were come up with for our $2.4 million dollar man. He once said he wanted to go back to South Dakota to be with his family so firefighters and police officers took up a collection and we put him on a bus the very next day. He was back in less than a month and up to his old routine.
Fortunately, after many years he decided he wanted to do better, and in 2008 he became sober and incredibly has stayed that way since.
My opinion? As Obamacare has shown when the government gets involved in health care then they make a mess of it. Anything Trump does to guarantee “insurance for everybody” will either be horrendously expensive or will make things as bad or worse than they are right now. Probably both. Repeal period. The market will sort itself out in short order.
I did some further snooping around comparing my company’s plan with catastrophic coverage for a person of age 25. They have increased the price of catastrophic plans to the point it would make no sense for a household member under 26 to buy one as long as they lived in town or in the basement. The cheapest catastrophic plan for a 25 year old is $250 a month.
“Big. Government. Liberal.”
Well, it seems he does thus self identify as the authoritarian collectivist utopian his critics fear he is. Seventy years of being a New York liberal is an ingrained habit. I hope he can manage to break it.
Plus “force”
Me too, even with more mild perspectives.
“I tried to warn the trumpites that this was his position. I even posted a video of Trump making that very statement. And for telling the truth, I was suspended for a week.”
I wanted Cruz bc Trump is not a conservative. He may be conservative on many issues, but that is coincidence imo.
If you fall off the Trump train, I hope you won’t get another ban.
Good Lord! My family plan is under $500.
And that keeps our Rx’s at no charge and pcp Appts at no charge. So, you can see why it’s a much better decision to have a family plan.
American drug companies pay for the hundreds of millions of dollars for the research and development of the drugs that make it to market. This does not account for the money spend on drugs that fail to get to market. Once said drugs make it to market, drug companies in other countries rush out cheap, knock-offs. American companies put in the work and these bums make profit off of them.
Careful, you might get your posting privileges curtailed.
Make it mandatory to have insurance, open up insurance nationwide, and force insurance companies to combine risk pools i.e. large company group plans with private insurance to determine profitablity.
You are confusing “access” with “affordability”. If Medicare/Medicaid/VA won’t pay for something, that doesn’t mean the patient has no “access” to it. It means the outrageous prices will create backlash against the pharma companies and drive prices lower. Just as any free market is supposed to do.
Having a third party like an insurance company or government paying the bill has wrecked the “free market” that requires a direct relationship between the seller and the consumer to function properly.
Just one of what I'm sure must be many.
This guy got $4 million.
Years ago I said why don’t they just subsidize the emergency rooms? No one listened, of course. Too much money to be made lining pockets along the way to nowhere.
As long as you’re destitute. For the middle class and the average worker, several thousand for a necessary drug is fine with them
That’s what they will charge the insurance co. Middle Class would not be expected to pay several thousands a month on meds. Pharmaseutical companies would help. You just need to contact them or contact organizations that represent the disorder for help with this.
However, there needs to be adjustment on costs on our meds as I said on my above post. US rx users are the ones who are paying huge amounts and are picking up the slack. I have yet to hear from anyone from any other country that pays our prices for meds.
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