Posted on 01/28/2014 12:02:51 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I could get behind this act, as a stepping stone back to an actual free market in health insurance and health care, but a GOP nanny state is still a nanny state.
Nanny State PING!
No “alternatives” other than going back to the status quo ( pre-Obama).
Insurance shouldn’t cover preexisting conditions. If it did, its not insurance but Welfare. Imagine if insurance cover car/house insurance after it burn down
He doesn't want health care for all. He doesn't want it to be cheap. He means to have the system crushed and will brook no dissent or interference in achieving that goal.
The sooner the dunderheads in the GOP realize this the sooner a real fight can begin. They are all walking around like little Neville Chamberlain-bots.
If nanny state light is what will happen, then let’s just go back to what we had before. It was the best health care in the world.
To take care of the uninsured sick, we have a nation in which every county has at least one county health clinic. Add a PA or Nurse Practitioner to each whose numbers jump, and tell the uninsured that the clinic will always be their first stop before going to the local hospital with an authorization for payment from the clinic to the Fed. This would, of course, include pre-existing conditions.
And, of course, allow insurance to be bought across state lines. Initiate tort reform regarding medical care.
How do you deal with the free-rider problem?
You know, I have heard a fair number of conservative and libertarian doctors say they would be ok with a single payer health care system at least temporarily - if only so that health care customers can actually see it laid out for them what they are paying for under a fed run system and can finally understand conceptually that making health care “affordable” for everyone really does mean they foot the bill for everyone else’s poor life choices.
Put everything back. Implement tort reform (lower insurance costs to doctors means lower costs to patients) and allow competition across state lines will mean lower prices.
From there you ca. Take the savings and put a plan in place for Medicaid and Medicare.
Really? There are no "county health clinics" anywhere near me. Counties around here and in adjacent states aren't involved in anything like that.
Yes, that idea may be helpful to people in that manner, but the closest thing to eternity on this earth is a government program, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan.
I’m for the Care Responsibility Action Program.
What state you from?
(I didn't quote the "burning house" part because it has become an annoying cliché).
Maybe insurance shouldn't cover pre-existing conditions but why should a pre-existing condition prevent a person from obtaining health insurance for unrelated medical problems, which was the previous system? Why not just exclude the pre-existing condition?
Not so sure this is a good idea, but if they want to sell it, these old duffers really ought to give the thing a NAME other than the “Old Republicans’ Thing.”.
It’s in the very FIRST week of Marketing 101.
As usual, when it comes to communicating, Republicans are complete morons.
Yes, I'm, aware they're calling it the CARE Act, but when these three old guys were interviewed at length about it, they referred to it , EXCLUSIVELY, as "Our Plan."
Duh.
County public health departments in the northwest send inspectors out to check restaurant and grocery sanitation — code enforcement — and the department does emergency planning and education, and employs the coroner, but does not see patients at any facility. Even phased out flu vaccinations several years ago. WIC has been integrated with private health clinics although funded partly by the county.
What state?
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