Posted on 04/05/2020 6:40:00 AM PDT by rintintin
The White House announced Friday that it plans to designate $100 billion in emergency spending approved by Congress to reimburse hospitals and other health care providers for treating the estimated 28 million people who are uninsured in the United States.
The decision comes amid the fast-moving novel coronavirus pandemic that has left many Americans furloughed or fired and without health insurance. The situation has become so urgent that Trump administration officials who once vilified the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, are now turning to the law as a workable option.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said on Friday Americans who lose their employee-sponsored insurance qualify for special enrollment and aren't impacted by the December 2019 deadline to get insurance this year. He also pointed that several states have expanded Medicaid eligibility under the Obama-era law.
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I think most will go to fraud.
Not in this case. This is an exception.
But generally yes. Government is horribly inefficient. We’ve seen what happens to socialized medicine in other countries. It will stifle innovation. There will be death panels. There will be delays. No thanks.
This is an incentive to see the number of cases go way high. It’s a money train.
It opens a big door to single payer.
That's called coding errors and will drive Wuhan Scam death stats through the roof.
Funny how a crisis, real or imagined, can usher in or start the transition to progressive policies such as universal income, single payor healthcare, and a government directed economy. So the question becomes: Are we all socialists now?
I think most of it will go to illegal aliens.
Yep, need to UP the numbers, so the ridiculousness of the lockdown gets lost...
. We’ve seen what happens to socialized medicine in other countries. It will stifle innovation.”
I know that’s the libertarian talking point, and I used to buy it and recite it. But after we spent billions on health care for Afghanistan and Iraq over the past 17 years, with no objections from conservatives, I started rethinking the conservatives case against government support for Americas’ health care bills .
We’re the only developed country that forces “private” businesses to serve as social service agencies and provide health insurance
Not only does Germany have universal health coverage, so does Australia, Taiwan and Israel. And one can hardly say that it has stifled innovation there - in fact we’re looking to Israel right now for covid therapies
I have a real problem with high profit health insurance companies sucking up, as middlemen, a lot of money that could actually go for health care
At the end of the year, I would like to see how the 2020 US death rate compares to 2019, 2018, 2017.
We’re paying a heavy price in many ways — and how much of an increase in death are we really seeing? We won’t know until it’s over.
The most basic problem with socialized anything is that birthrates plummet as workers foot the tax bills. Outside of the island nations you mention, any country with socialized medicine (including Western European countries, Canada/US, and Israel) has watched its birthrate among “natives” plummet.
From THE ACE OF SPADES blog
October 02, 2014
Flashback: In August 2010, President Midas Touch Scrapped Tougher Bush-Era Quarantine Rules Designed to Halt Spread of Epidemics
Via Kerry Picket at Breitbart.http://ace.mu.nu/archives/352214.php
...Flash forward to April 2010, after Obama became president, and reviewed the 2005 rules. He “quietly” dumped them.[http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-04-01-quarantine_N.htm]
The Obama administration has quietly scrapped plans to enact sweeping new federal quarantine regulations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention touted four years ago as critical to protecting Americans from dangerous diseases spread by travelers.
The regulations, proposed in 2005 during the Bush administration amid fears of avian flu, would have given the federal government additional powers to detain sick airline passengers and those exposed to certain diseases. They also would have expanded requirements for airlines to report ill passengers to the CDC and mandated that airlines collect and maintain contact information for fliers in case they later needed to be traced as part of an investigation into an outbreak.
Airline and civil liberties groups, which had opposed the rules, praised their withdrawal....
In what way are businesses ‘forced’ by the feds to pay for a benefit?
This graph goes along with the health insurance issue:
https://twitter.com/wellagedcheese/status/1246548366454149120?s=21
Impossible. Obamacare was passed so NO American would ever be without health insurance.
I hope not. Illegal aliens are not Americans.
On the other hand, they can infect you as easily as real US citizens can.
BINGO!
WHY?
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