They can now. All they need is the money for the premiums.
AND, the avoided costs and the tax credits will make it attractive for new health insurance policies to be offered in forms people want, whether basic or Cadillac or some forms in-between.
What is driving up the cost of health care premiums are the requirement that pre-existing conditions be covered, prescription coverage, and the fact that there is no cap on how much an insurance company is liable to cover. Nothing in the current GOP plan addresses any of those. In fact it includes all of them. Add in government subsidies and how are premiums supposed to go down?
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==> Here are my comments, inserted in our conversation:
ME: I think eliminating the “mandate” that requires individuals and businesses to buy ObamaCare will allow everyone but the truly poor and the truly sick to buy private health insurance — if they want to do so.
YOU: They can now. All they need is the money for the premiums.
==> ME: Really? Then why are the buyers so angry? Perhaps because they cannot afford to PAY the “premium” and PAY the “deductible”. ObamaCare costs more than it is worth!
ME: AND, the avoided costs and the tax credits will make it attractive for new health insurance policies to be offered in forms people want, whether basic or Cadillac or some forms in-between.
YOU: What is driving up the cost of health care premiums are the requirement that pre-existing conditions be covered, prescription coverage, and the fact that there is no cap on how much an insurance company is liable to cover. Nothing in the current GOP plan addresses any of those.
==> Really? Except the fact that the consumer does NOT have to buy the “Mandated” undesirable add-ons or, having no “pre-conditions”, does NOT have to pay an inflated premium for the good of the pool. And the fact that the new “mega-hospitals” are very, VERY profitable, with new 7-figure salaries for their new smug administrators. Let’s allow competition to bring down these monopolistic costs DOWN.
YOU: In fact it includes all of them. Add in government subsidies and how are premiums supposed to go down?
==> Make competition possible. And prosecute insurance fraud and litigation fraud severely. I can think of several lawyers who would benefit from “breaking rocks” for a few years...