Posted on 02/16/2017 11:14:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
4. For those uninsured, medical service billings cannot exceed those billed to standard Medicare/Medicaide costs.
and the risk pools will be very expensive.
The risk pools will be very expensive. And the insurance companies will put anyone with so much as a hangnail into them.
4. Allow small companies of fewer than 50 employees to pool together to form groups, managed by insurance brokers, which can collectively take out group insurance policies. Every working person, even the self-employed single worker, would have access. People who don’t work would have Medicaid.
I hope it is satisfied, as you say, because pre-ex pools are a bad idea.
Most of the previous bills to replace Obamacare had pre-ex provisions that would essentially work like they used to do. The only difference would be a ‘final’ opportunity to purchase some kind of medical insurance before the pre-ex provision would apply to any new policies purchased after a set deadline.
Personally, I don’t think there is any longer a political solution for what ails us. We are far beyond that. Rules for such anarchists are sooooo 20th Century. They have their installed judges now, who will issue edicts over this, and any future constitution.
What we need is a thorough purging. Yes, that means civil war - not political, but bloody.
>Personally, I don’t think there is any longer a political solution for what ails us. We are far beyond that. Rules for such anarchists are sooooo 20th Century. They have their installed judges now, who will issue edicts over this, and any future constitution.
>What we need is a thorough purging. Yes, that means civil war - not political, but bloody.
Congress has the power to remove these judges. Perhaps we need to help give them will to do so.
I’m not sure “next week” is accurate in this headline. Hotair may not know that congress is in recess next week, so that actually “returns after the President’s day holiday, is a week from Monday, not Tuesday.
President Trump has said under no circumstances will he sign a bill that sunsets the pre-existing conditions.
However, although I am a perfectly healthy man, I have a very mild, asymptomatic, non-threatening atrial fib. Because of that lifelong condition, and after losing my job in 2008 (and then working two jobs part-time without group insurance), I was thrown into the pre-existing condition category and denied insurance prior to Obamacare. And I explored the pre-existing pools . . . they were prohibitively expensive relative to everything else. And I just don't like the idea of insurance companies being allowed to determine who gets thrown into that pool. So, I very much hope you are right. I have remained covered for three years, and should qualify to be covered in whatever system is put into place.
But, you know, being as healthy as I am (I run and swim) , all I really want is a catastrophic policy that covers next to nothing, but protects me if I fall off the roof or contract a fatal disease. And that should not cost me an arm and a leg.
That’s a shame. It’s probably really the only way to go to return the health insurance industry to any form of self sufficiency and capitalistic efficiency.
Coverage should not cost as much or more than mortgage or rent. Some of the plans are also looking at reducing what is considered minimum coverage. This would also reduce the costs. Obamacare is a flustercluck of a disaster. It is BS that such dreadfully inadequate medical insurance is so tremendously expensive. There has to be a better way, but the leftist dream of universally inadequate government ‘care’ is NOT it.(Not yelling at you. The very thought of an American version of NHS makes my blood boil.)
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